Kate Chaney (Curtin, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is for the Prime Minister. Since you came to office in 2022, parliamentary committees have prepared 78 reports and hundreds of recommendations on policy areas ranging from domestic violence to plastic pollution to gambling harm. Your government has only responded to four of these within the required six-month window. Fifty-seven reports haven't received any response at all. Why is the government consistently failing to respond to important committee recommendations? Why set up these inquiries if they're not going to go anywhere?

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

I thank the member for Curtin for her question and for her engagement in the parliamentary processes. The member for Curtin brings due diligence to her local representation but also participates in the broader questions that come before this parliament. My government is characterised by orderly decision-making—

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

Order!

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

by taking the views not just of the parliament but those outside the parliament into account as well as developing policies one by one, ticking off on the commitments that we took to the 2022 election firstly and then the 2025 election. We engage in a cohesive way as well with departments, making sure that, after a committee hands down a report, we give it proper consideration through our cabinet processes. We make sure as well that we have proper funding involved and go through our ERC process before any expenditure process is agreed to.

Cameron Caldwell (Fadden, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is pretty ordinary.

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

Order! The member for Fadden is now warned.

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

That is the orderly process that we—

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

Order! The Leader of the Opposition has had a pretty good go this question time. It's just continual interjections, and it's just too much. Please assist the House by not interjecting.

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

That is the orderly process that we use. If you go back and have a look at the previous government's record, they used to just not bother to respond at all to committee reports. My government takes these issues seriously, which is why we engage—including, it must be said, with the crossbench—regularly. We have regular meetings. It could be that there are a number of regular crossbench meetings we have to have, even more so into the future. I look forward to all of them participating.