QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr BURKE (Watson—Minister for the Arts, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Leader of the House) (15:17): I thank the member for Deakin for the question—someone who is delivering for Deakin in a way that hasn't happened for that electorate for a very long time. This term, through legislation in the parliament, the Albanese Labor government has cut student debt by 20 per cent.

Through legislation in the parliament, we are delivering on cheaper medicines. Through legislation in the parliament, we are protecting penalty rates. Every single measure supported by this side of the House was opposed by those opposite.

Only this week we have introduced further cost-of-living relief on freezing the beer excise and on payday superannuation and, building on what was done in the House last term, on tax cuts, on getting wages moving, on energy bill relief, on free TAFE and on building more homes. Every one of these measures, again, was supported by this side of the House and opposed by those opposite.

I am asked if there other approaches to delivering on the cost of living. While this side is focused on delivery, that side is focused on division. The description of them used to be and was given iconic status—you will remember, Mr Speaker—by Scott Morrison when he described them as a 'muppet show'.

They've gone one step up this week, with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price describing them as a 'clown show'. From broad church to circus tent, those opposite are providing the light entertainment on the hill. We are never quite sure if the clown show is going to have a scary clown, like Pennywise of Stephen King's It, or whether they're just going to provide Bozo.

The Leader of the Opposition, from the moment she came into office, has been juggling on a tightrope without a net, while, below her, the extreme right are engaging in a knife-throwing event. The member for Canning is no longer a lion tamer. He's broken out of his cage, wandering along the back rows, working out who to attack.

The member for New England is the human cannonball of the parliament. In sideshow alley, there are those booths where the kids can look and say, 'Are those Nationals real?' You get outsiders at every single circus. There are food stalls with cookers as far as the eye can see.

But the ringmaster isn't in the parliament. Every night they go back and turn on their TV sets once it's dark, and the ringmaster tells them everything to believe. He tells them to only talk about themselves, to focus on division and to let the Albanese Labor government do the delivery.

Mr Albanese: On that note, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.