Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What we are going to do—because, unlike those opposite, who couldn't keep a line from Sunday to Wednesday, we on this side have a clear agenda of what we took to the election. It's tax cuts. You on that side of the House, including the member for Fairfax, took a position to the election. Apart from the seven nuclear reactors that they wouldn't visit, they took a position, which was to have tax increases for 14 million Australians. So it's a bit early, on day one, to start the rule-in rule-out game that they themselves said on Sunday was juvenile and absurd. He'll be going to the economic roundtable, and I look forward to him making the sort of contribution that he made in the last term of parliament, which we on this side appreciated, particularly the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, who's very disappointed.

But I'd make this point as well. With the last shadow Treasurer, it was like there was a nuclear force field around the Treasurer asking him questions. The shadow Treasurer has had two opportunities and has failed to do so.

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