Mr DREYFUS (Isaacs—Deputy Manager of Opposition Business) (16:31): The Prime Minister continues to boast about Australia's take up of, and investment in, renewable energy as if it were an achievement of the current federal Liberal government. But the truth is that this failing and flailing Prime Minister has fought every step of the way to kill renewable energy investment in Australia. That is his record. That is his government's record. That is the record of the federal Liberal Party. Almost every advance in climate policy in Australia has been the result of the work of Labor and state and territory governments in the face of a deliberate and destructive campaign by the Prime Minister and his colleagues to do whatever they could to block progress. The Prime Minister is like that smirking and sneering co-worker who rubbishes your ideas, only to be the first to claim credit for them when he realises they will impress the boss. As recently as 9 October 2019, the Prime Minister's hand-picked Minister for Emissions Reduction argued that Australia had built too much renewable energy generation and laid the blame for this at the feet of state governments. Now the Prime Minister says investment in renewable energy is a good thing and was his idea all along. As Treasurer, this Prime Minister mocked the large Tesla battery in South Australia by likening it to the Big Banana. Now he says investment in renewable energy is a good thing and was his idea all along. When this Prime Minister waved a lump of coal in the parliament he was mocking South Australia's investment in renewable energy and denouncing Labor's commitment to renewable energy as 'Dark Ages policies'. Now he says investment in renewable energy is a good thing and was his idea all along. This Prime Minister and his colleagues voted against the establishment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation by the Rudd Government and, after winning the election in 2013, they twice voted to abolish it. When that failed, the Liberals ordered the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to cease investing in both wind and solar power. Now the Prime Minister says investment in renewable energy is a good thing and boasts that 'we have the world's most successful green bank in the Clean Energy Finance Corporation'. We do, Prime Minister, but no thanks to you. You mocked it, you opposed it and if you'd had your way it would have been abolished. Now you try to take credit for it. The truth is that the Prime Minister and his colleagues have mocked, criticised, obstructed or tried to undo almost every significant policy achievement in relation to climate action in Australia. That is the record of the current Prime Minister. That is the record of this government. It is a shameful record and this Prime Minister knows it. But rather than take any responsibility for that shameful record he denies it. It never happened. This Prime Minister spends all of his time thinking up marketing slogans to rewrite history and none of his time thinking about the future of our country. If the months since the last election have taught us anything, it's that the current occupant of the Prime Minister's office is no more than a spinner, a marketing spiv, a fake. He will never miss a photo opportunity, even if it means forcing a traumatised woman to shake his hand, but when it comes to addressing the problems facing Australia he is missing in action. He is no leader. Unlike the current Prime Minister, real leaders are not pathologically incapable of taking responsibility. Unlike the current Prime Minister, real leaders do not respond to crisis by asking who can I blame for this or by producing self-serving political ads. Unlike the current Prime Minister, real leaders do not deny the existence of problems or run away from the solutions. Unlike the current Prime Minister, real leaders state hard truths, not comforting lies in the form of marketing slogans. Unlike the current Prime Minister, real leaders clean up corruption. The country doesn't need an ad man. It country needs a leader. And on any measure, the current the current occupant of the Prime Minister's office is an abject failure.