Mr TURNBULL (Wentworth—Prime Minister) (14:28): The technique of the Leader of the Opposition is to tell one falsehood after another and then hope that, by repeating it, it will cut through. He has no regard for the truth whatsoever. He misled the House and was condemned for it today. He misled the Australian people by claiming that the Australian Energy Regulator's figures showed that, under the time of the coalition government, electricity prices for average Sydney households had gone up by $1,000. As has been amply demonstrated in the House today, that was completely untrue. There was no basis in fact. He took the names of two very important government agencies, the AER—the energy regulator—and the Energy Market Commission, and he said they showed that prices had gone up by $1,000 in the four years of the coalition government. He stood out at a door stop and he said— The SPEAKER: The Management of Opposition Business, a point of order? Mr Burke: Yes, on direct relevance, Mr Speaker. The question could not have been more specific about whether or not the Prime Minister agrees with his Minister for Energy. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister is addressing the claim in the question. He's entitled to address it by staying on the policy topic, which he's doing. He's completely in order. The Prime Minister has the call. Mr TURNBULL: Electricity prices are not a question of opinion. They're a question of fact. We know what the facts are, and the facts were misrepresented by the Labor Party. They were deliberately misrepresented by the Labor Party. The Leader of the Opposition said, 'The research shows'—what research? No research, no facts, and they repeated it again and again. As I have said and as the energy minister has said, we know what happened. The coalition came into government, it abolished the carbon tax, electricity prices went down— Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Hunter's now warned. Mr TURNBULL: That's it. Coalition policies resulted in electricity prices going down. Labor voted against that. And we have seen in recent times, particularly in the course of the last 12 months, very large increases in electricity prices. Ms Plibersek interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Sydney is warned. Mr TURNBULL: And why have we seen that? We've seen that because of the closure of Hazelwood, the failure to provide enough backup to renewables and the soaring price of gas. All of that is the consequence of Labor failures. These are all problems Labor created and that we're seeking to address. But we've got to recognise that despite saying something that was patently untrue— Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Shortland. Mr TURNBULL: despite telling falsehoods about the views of two important regulators, despite misleading the House, the Leader of the Opposition has never had the courage to come to the despatch box and— (Time expired) Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Shortland is now warned.