QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:22): I'm asked about families and whether they're better off and what we're doing about it. Families will benefit from the award minimum wage going up today by 4.75 per cent. Families will benefit by the increase as well—for those on the absolute minimum wage—of six per cent.

Families will benefit by every single Australian taxpayer getting a tax cut today. And I'll tell you what not just families but future families will benefit from; it's paid parental leave going to six months. We've increased it year after year after year to get it up to six months.

We're paying superannuation on that paid parental leave as well—something never comprehended by those opposite. Families are benefiting from the work that we're doing on bulk-billing, from opening urgent care clinics and from cheaper medicines, to deal with health costs as well. Families who are putting in cheaper home batteries are benefiting.

Some 450,000 of them have made sure that their energy bills are either zero or pretty close to it by installing a cheap home battery, which is making an enormous difference. Indeed, by them taking that action, it's also helping other people because it's taking pressure off the grid, making an enormous difference as well. Young families are benefiting from changing the equation when it comes to housing—by recognising that there's a broken system here in Australia and giving them a fair crack at getting a roof over their own head.

That is what delivering real change looks like. That's a government that not only identifies issues but also recognises that people are under pressure and says it is going to do something about it, just as we did when it came to the crisis that came about due to the Middle East conflict. We didn't sit back and say, 'There are issues, and we're not going to do anything about it.' Those opposite have stopped asking questions about that.

We made sure that Australians continued to have access to petrol, to diesel, to jet fuel and to fertiliser. We made sure that we delivered in a way in which—those opposite, prior to Easter, were calling for rationing and not identifying any solutions whatsoever, because they are the axis of grievance over there. The three right-wing parties aren't interested in helping people; they're just interested in promoting grievance.