Jo Briskey (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government showing leadership and delivering for Australians by strengthening Medicare, easing cost-of-living pressures and helping them to earn more and keep more of what they earn? How does this compare to other approaches to leadership in Australia?

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

I thank the member for Maribyrnong for her question. Indeed, we are focused on the Australian people and working every day to deliver for them. We are strengthening Medicare because that's just what Labor governments do: more bulk-billing, making medicines cheaper, opening urgent care clinics, delivering 1800MEDICARE, properly funding public hospitals and making sure that the only thing that Australians need is their Medicare card, not their credit card. We're delivering cost-of-living relief across the board, cutting taxes, cutting student debt, getting real wages up and protecting penalty rates so that Australians can earn more and keep more of what they earn. We're properly funding every single public school in the country, making a difference. We've had 725,000 Australians that have benefited from free TAFE. We're establishing university study hubs around regional Australia. We are making it easier for Australians to get into their own home. Help to Buy is up and running. Build to rent is building. Since we fast tracked our five per cent deposit scheme in October last year, more than 31,000 new home buyers have their first home. There's always more to do, and our work to make a positive difference is never finished.

While we're building more homes for Australians, those opposite are busy tearing down their own home. They're obsessed with cutting each other down, but they never want to cut your taxes or cut the cost of living. They can't stand each other, but they all stand for cutting Medicare. They love fighting, but they never fight for Australia; they just fight each other. It goes to their core values, and we've seen that with the extraordinary launch of a leadership campaign that didn't have a single new policy idea. It was just the vibe. They got out there—not a single new idea.

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

Before we go to the next question, the member for Moncrieff is entitled to take her point of order, and she shall do so.

Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister—it's on relevance. You're really not talking about what the question was and giving us an answer. You're focusing on the opposition—

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

Resume your seat. The Leader of the House?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The final part of the question asked for the Prime Minister to provide information to the House on other approaches to leadership. There are many to choose from from those opposite, and that's what he said.

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

The Prime Minister was definitely asked about approaches to leadership, so the comments he's making are obviously being directly relevant to the question he was asked.

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

I was waiting for their leadership candidate to say, 'Vote for me,' and, 'I support world peace.' That was the substance that was in there. Essentially they all agree. They all agree, 'We're not looking after Australians,' but they're just looking after themselves. It doesn't matter who sits in that chair. The problem isn't the leader. The problem is that whoever sits there will just be another Liberal.