Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Tomorrow marks 10 months since the 2022 election. Can the Prime Minister identify—

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

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

Order, members on my right. The deputy leader will resume her seat. Members on my right, I cannot hear a word the deputy leader—

The member for Macnamara is warned. The deputy leader will be heard in absolute silence, otherwise people will be warned.

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Can the Prime Minister identify a single Australian who is paying less on their electricity bill now than they were 10 months ago, a single mortgage holder who has seen their interest rate go down in the past 10 months or a single person whose grocery bill is lower today than it was 10 months ago? Why do Australian families always pay more under Labor?

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

I thank the member for her question, and I can confirm that tomorrow does represents 10 months since the election because I remember it well. In those 10 months what we've been doing is economic reform, social reform, environmental reform, and making sure that we fulfil our first responsibility as a government, to make Australians safer by looking after our national security. I can confirm that we have been dealing with domestic issues, such as ensuring that people have access to cheaper pharmaceuticals from 1 January and cheaper child care from 1 July and that 180,000 Australians are benefitting from fee-free TAFE that we have introduced while addressing the skill shortages. We have also been making sure that the mistakes—

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

The Prime Minister will pause. The question was around electricity prices, cost of living, families paying less for groceries. The prime minister is being relevant, but I'll hear from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on a point of order.

Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On relevance, Mr Speaker. As you've just said, the question was about mortgage prices, grocery prices and lower electricity prices, and the Prime Minister has not mentioned any of those once.

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

Resume your seat. When a question is broad, covering a whole range of topics, under the standing orders the Prime Minister is being entirely in order, and I give him the call.

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

It has been a good 10-month period because what we've been doing is going through, fulfilling the commitments that we made at the election, as you go along the front row here, making sure we have a national anticorruption commission that will be up and running this year after the legislation being passed—legislation that was promised by those opposite way back in 2018, but not only not passed but not even introduced into this parliament. We had the robodebt royal commission, exposing the tragic consequences of what happened with a scheme that was illegal. That won't occur on our watch. We have got significant reform right across the board under this government.

Honourable members interjecting—

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

The members for Bowman and Groom will cease interjecting.

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

I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for her question. We haven't been able to get up all the things she would have liked and was advocating for, such as live sheep exports. She made a statement about that just before question time, and I was expecting something like that from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to show how principled her stance is. But we will continue to implement a Labor agenda, continue to take the government forward, unlike those opposite who say what they're against and haven't come up with a single constructive idea in the last 10 months.

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

Order! The Deputy Leader of the Opposition will cease interjecting and so will the member for Barker.