Aaron Violi (Casey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, under your budget how much will gas prices go up by?

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

I thank the member for his question. Remember that there was a time when questions used to get asked on this side of the House—by dixer—and they spoke about the gas led recovery? The gas led recovery! They spoke about how—

Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Then they put Angus in charge of it!

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

They actually appointed Andrew Liveris, who I will be meeting with this afternoon, actually. He's a quality person. He's someone who has been put in charge—oh, seriously!

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause. The Prime Minister has been answering the question for 30 seconds, so I'll hear from the Leader of the Opposition out of courtesy.

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's on relevance, Mr Speaker. The question was: Prime Minister, under your budget how much will gas prices go up by? It was nothing broader than that, as tight as you've requested and he refuses to answer a basic question.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question was about—

The Leader of the Opposition has raised his point of order, he may resume his seat. The question was about gas and the Prime Minister is referring to gas. I'm listening carefully to his answer, and I give—

Opposition members interjecting—

Order, on my left! I give him the call.

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

I'm certainly talking about gas, which is what the question was about. Not the gas coming from those opposite, but the gas in the system that we need! What we used to have were questions of the minister—

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you know the answer or not? Somebody pass it to him, for goodness sake!

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will cease yelling across the table!

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

He's very angry, Mr Speaker!

Opposition members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The House will come to order! I'm trying to hear the Prime Minister but the yelling on the left makes it almost impossible. The Prime Minister will be heard in silence. I give him the call.

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

Thanks very much, Mr Speaker. I'm talking about gas. We used to hear about the gas led recovery. And why the gas led recovery is so called is important in terms of price, because that was envisaging this massive increase in supply. But of course it didn't happen—it didn't happen! There wasn't anything that came on line as a result of this big review. That was going to be the big recovery post the pandemic; it was going to be a gas led recovery.

I'll give you the big tip: the government didn't change in 2020, or even in 2021. The fact is that those opposite presided over a system whereby four gigawatts went out and one gigawatt went in—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Nationals is on a warning. I'd ask him to stop interjecting.

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

and that has an impact, in terms of supply. What this government has done—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Longman and the member for Bowman are both warned.

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

unlike what happened when we came into office—we heard all sorts of rhetoric from those opposite about how the lights were going to go out, the system was going to fail, and, of course, that didn't happen, because the minister for energy got together with the states and territories—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The Leader of the Opposition will cease interjecting.

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

and delivered an outcome. Then, of course, we heard that there was going to be a shortage in gas supply. We were told the shortage would be 56 petajoules. Instead of that we delivered 157, an increase of more than 100 over what was anticipated. We did that on the basis of the heads of agreement that was negotiated by our very fine Minister for Resources. So if those opposite want to have— (Time expired)

Opposition members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! There is far too much noise on my left.