Mr MITCHELL (McEwen—Second Deputy Speaker) (15:46): The only drought the electorate of Parkes has is the intellectual drought from their member. I have never before seen five minutes of such absolute rubbish— Mr McCormack: You're a disgrace. What a disgraceful thing to say about the member for Parkes. Mr MITCHELL: There he is—Geppetto himself, the little Pinocchio. Mr McCormack: You're a disgrace. Mr MITCHELL: You're a goose. You know why they sit you over? They don't want you near the front bench. He did nothing for five minutes but talk rubbish. When you have a debate on economics, you usually put your lead person up. The worst thing that they could do was to put up Little Sloppy—I will call him that—the member for Kooyong. He was on the television last night saying that petrol prices had gone down because of this government. Somehow, the Abbott government, which has done nothing but break every single promise it made to the electorate, has made APEC drop their prices. But of course petrol prices have gone up 37c since Christmas. Ms Butler: Must have shirt-fronted them. Mr MITCHELL: Must have shirt-fronted them. The 'plastic Putin' Tony Abbott has got in there and he has got APEC to lower their prices. But the member for Kooyong says the reason petrol prices are down is 'all because of us'. But now prices have gone up 37c, including the 1.7c a litre fuel tax that they put on, despite saying to the electorate before the last election, 'There will be no new taxes under this government.' Just another broken promise by a broken government that is chaotic and shambolic at the very best. Mr Howarth interjecting— Mr MITCHELL: Don't let me get stuck into you, please—the only bloke I know who thinks that he is better than the rest of the world. He got out there and talked about the Moreton rail, saying, 'It's been delivered by the coalition government.' It did not. Mr Howarth: That's rubbish. Mr MITCHELL: You silly fool, it was delivered by us. We built it and we funded it, and that is why your own electorate attacked you for not telling the truth. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Broadbent ): Order! Members could temper their language in regard to other members. Mr MITCHELL: Certainly. Thank you, Acting Deputy Speaker. I am happy to do that. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Would you like to withdraw the remark 'silly fool'? Mr MITCHELL: Which one? The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Which one? Wyatt Roy interjecting— Mr MITCHELL: Come on, back in your highchair, Bugaboo. I am happy to withdraw that remark, acting Deputy Speaker. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Would the member for McEwen just say he withdraws? Mr MITCHELL: I have said I withdraw. I am more than happy to. In 2002, this Prime Minister, the Prime Minister for broken promises, promised a surplus from his government each and every year. Well, we are into the second year of this government, and guess what? They cannot even get their budget through. It is that bad that their magic pudding has gone flat. They promised to deliver a surplus and they cannot even deliver a budget. You only have to look at the opening remarks by the lead speaker for the government, whose first comments were, 'Back in 1986.' Whenever the government talk about economics in this place, the first thing they do is go back and talk about last century. No-one has told them that we are now in the 21st century. That could explain a lot of the ideas that they bring forward all the time. Peter Costello, the man they usually bow and scrape to, described this Prime Minister perfectly when it comes to talking about economics and budgets. He said he is 'an economic illiterate'. That explains what the Prime Minister does. That is why he attacks pensions. That is why he attacks schools. That is why he attacks health. An opposition member: And universities. Mr MITCHELL: And universities. They attack them to make sure that our kids are going to paying a lot more to go to school and get a degree. But the one thing they did not do, the one thing they ran away from so quickly, scurrying like little crickets in the headlights, when there was talk about taxing multinational companies for the profits that they make here in Australia and then they offshore, was support taxing large companies. These guys, every single one of them, sat there and went quiet. But they are more than happy to rip every red cent they can off a pensioner or off a young person. That is why their budget has failed. This is a government that sit there and say, 'Well, if you get unemployed for some reason, not your own fault'—if one of the industries that the government have been very proud to close shuts down—'you can go without unemployment benefits for six months if you are under the age of 30.' In McEwen, we have a high rate of under-35s—young people starting families and buying houses. This government say to them, 'If you lose your job, stiff'—no support, no income support, no help. But they will jump on a plane and fly down to a birthday party and sing happy birthday at the taxpayer's expense, but they will not attack multinational— (Time expired)