Mr ROB MITCHELL (McEwen) (15:46): We should remind those opposite that they did not want to do it. They were dragged to it. I was in this chamber. I know; they do not. They come in here late and pretend they know things. Let us go to the fundamental heart of what we are talking about today: this unfair budget. What we have seen today is a prime example of those opposite only being concerned about the top end of town. We have heard all day from this government—and the muppets keep yapping—that millionaires and people such as them, people on the frontbench like Dr Gillespie, are going to get a $6,000 or $7,000 tax cut. But what about pensioners? Why do they need to be paying more? Why will you take the energy supplement off them and only give them back $75? Why would you do that? That is the question that we ask. Why would the government do that? Mr Wallace: Only millionaires drive, do they? Mr ROB MITCHELL: I will take that interjection. It is a perfect example of the ignorance of the LNP. Remember Joe Hockey and 'poor people cannot afford to drive cars'? We have just had that today from another right-wing ideologue who wants to look after himself and thinks that pensioners do not deserve more money. Why does he think that people on low incomes deserve to be taxed more? Why do they deserve to have less money in their pockets? We heard it today from the prime minister. We know the Prime Minister is a well-rounded individual with his top hat, his monocle, his truffles and his money hidden in the Cayman Islands. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Coulton ): Order, Member for McEwen. Dr Gillespie: I ask the member to withdraw those comments about the Prime Minister. Mr ROB MITCHELL: No, you cannot. Learn your standing orders while you are still here and stop wasting time. Today we again heard the Prime Minister talk about people earning less than $87,000. He said, 'We actually want to help people earning less than $87,000.' They don't. They want to punish them. The Prime Minister said, 'You're rallying against people who are successful.' In the eyes of the Liberal National Party, people who are out there defending our country, police officers, nurses and all those earning $87,000, are failures. By their own words they should be hanged because of this. People earning less than $87,000 are not failures. I will tell you what a failure is. A failure is someone who goes and sits on the government benches like you lot and talks about Whyalla being wiped out, talks about $100 lamb roasts, tries to take the energy supplement from pensioners, cuts funding from needy schools and drags Medicare prices up so that people cannot afford to go to the doctors. It costs $75 to go to a doctor on a weekend in Mernda. Who can afford that? Certainly not people who are earning low incomes and certainly not families. Mr Wallace: How about lying? Mr ROB MITCHELL: I ask that he withdraw that immediately. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: No— Mr ROB MITCHELL: If he is going to say that I am lying then he has to withdraw it. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I was listening to the member for Fisher. He did not accuse anyone of lying. Mr ROB MITCHELL: Mr Deputy Speaker, I suggest that you have a look at that again. He is sitting there saying that we are lying. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I heard what he said. He did not accuse anyone of lying. I call the member for McEwen. Mr ROB MITCHELL: What can you say? It is ridiculous that people can come in here and make mendacious claims, be deliberately untruthful and sit there and not have the guts to withdraw it. It shows what a low rent character the people who live in your electorate have as their representative. It is really disgusting that those opposite want to come in here and punish poor people to the benefit of the rich. We had a Prime Minister—when he had knifed the previous one—come in here and say that he was going to talk about economic leadership. Where did that go? Gone. 'Explain issues and foster understanding in the electorate' was his quote. Where did that go? 'Respect people's intelligence.' What did we get? 'Continuity with change'. They were that lazy, that pathetic, that they ran to a TV show to get their slogan. This is a Prime Minister who has failed and backflipped on everything he ever stood for. We all remember of the Q&A Turnbull who would sit there with his leather jacket on, saying he supported same-sex marriage and he would not lead a party that did not believe in climate change. Where did those policies go? They are gone. Mr Perrett: He is not leading them. Mr ROB MITCHELL: He is not leading the party, we know. (Time expired)