Last night we saw something quite extraordinary. On 7.30, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy declared:

… I never quite bought all the hype on green hydrogen …

Yet he put $9 billion into green hydrogen! Now imagine if he had bought the hype. Where would we have ended up? $18 billion? $27 billion? Who knows where the taxpayers' largesse would have stopped? On the back of him not buying into the hype on green hydrogen, he also said this on 13 April 2023:

Today's release of the annual State of Hydrogen report reinforces that Australia has the foundations to become a global leader in green hydrogen.

On 23 May 2024, he said:

Now some people might think, oh, you know, is green hydrogen real, is it going to happen? Well, it's already being manufactured right there in Gladstone …

I wonder what the member up the back thinks of that. I'm sure we'll hear from him at some stage. On 18 December 2023 the minister said:

And if we're going to play our role in decarbonising that is one of the key and essential roles that we can play, developing an Australian green hydrogen industry and exporting it.

On 18 January 2024 he said:

Firstly, of course, our Government wants Australia to be a hydrogen superpower, a green hydrogen superpower.

The list goes on and on and on.

If this is what the minister thought not buying in was, what the hell is he doing? What is he thinking—or doesn't he think? This is the worry. It's just all green ideology. It's just pure and utter green ideology. And I say to the minister: have you forgotten your promise to the Australian people for $275 off every power bill? Not only that, have you forgotten your promise to the Australian people that you would support manufacturing jobs? As a matter of fact, the Prime Minister went to Whyalla, and he's quoted as saying he was going to 'secure all those jobs'. That's what the Prime Minister said.

Now, should we add this up as another broken promise? He didn't fall of a stage. We know that ripper. He didn't insult the Japanese prime minister. We know that one. The $275 off your power bill wasn't delivered. When it comes to negative gearing, when it comes to capital gains, when it comes to tax on trusts—I think it was more than 50 times. What happened when it comes to looking after our veterans? Was anything said before the last election about hitting veterans with a $750 million cap? No, there wasn't. Was anything said to pensioners in Australia that they'd be hit with additional costs for their private health insurance? That affects 1.5 million pensioners.

And then there are those steelworkers in Whyalla—over 600 of them. As the local member said in the first question today, over 600 of them were promised by the Prime Minister that their jobs were safe. He was happy to go to Whyalla, happy to go to Whyalla and stand there with them and say it, yet, once the jobs go, he gets asked a question today in question and he won't even take the question. What a disgrace! What an utter disgrace. He just flicks it. Six hundred jobs—just flicks it.

I think this is the worst and greatest insult. We have the Minister for Climate Change and Energy spending $150 million on a pre-COP in Fiji and Tuvalu which is all about his so-called presidency—$150 million and no-one's going. As a matter of fact, what I'm hearing is they're all going to Turkiye, and that's really upsetting the minister for climate change. They're all going to Turkiye and they're not going to his, and that's meant to be really upsetting him. But this is the worst part of it. There is $150 million for that, but what are the workers being offered in Whyalla? So far, there is $10 million after being promised that their jobs were secure forever, that the steelworks was secure forever. The Prime Minister won't even own the question he was asked today. Seriously, where is such arrogance towards workers when you can have a prime minister who will do that to fellow Australians who have lost their jobs? Not only have they lost their jobs, but their families will be impacted and their community will be impacted. I do not think the Prime Minister quite understands what happens when you take that amount of jobs out of a community. We saw the minister he flicked to come up, and what was his response?