Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he has dumped his latest signature energy policy today, because he has lost control of the parliament? Can he also confirm that he fronts a minority government, because the Minister for Home Affairs deposed Malcolm Turnbull? Why is Malcolm Turnbull no longer the Prime Minister of Australia?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What the Leader of the Opposition just put to me at the outset of his question is complete rubbish. That doesn't surprise me, because the Leader of the Opposition is always talking rubbish. He talks rubbish all the time. He talks rubbish in here; he talks rubbish outside of here. We all remember that, at the last election, he went around talking rubbish, saying that we were going to sell Medicare, for goodness sake! I can tell him that bulk-billing and Medicare are at record highs under our government. I can tell him that hospital funding is at a record high and will be in the future under our government.

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

School funding.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The same goes for school funding; the same goes for infrastructure funding. The budget is coming back into balance, and we will be announcing that on 2 April this year. What we will be doing, as part of our broader economic plan, is ensuring that we're not only meeting our environmental commitments but we're also doing the right thing to get reliable energy into the electricity market. We'll be doing that with the big stick and we'll be doing that with every tool at our disposal. All I know is that the leader of the Labor Party is not prepared to take on the big energy companies—

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Like with the big banks.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

just like he's not prepared to take on the big banks, because he's going to sell out the mortgage-broking industry and hand the power back to the big banks. The Leader of the Opposition, the leader of the Labor Party, is very big on talking rubbish, and he has started off in that vein today.