Mr FALINSKI (Mackellar) (15:47): It is very difficult to take this MPI seriously. If the others opposite won't take it seriously, what are we meant to do about it? This is like debating a bunch of chatbots. The member for Fenner simply put together a whole bunch of cliches that he's been trotting out in his speeches for the last three years that I've been in this place. The great offence here is not the MPI; the really great offence here is the fact that he can't even be bothered coming up with new material. He's such a great reader, you'd think he would have thought of something new. I see the member for Fraser is getting ready to speak. They talk about human capital over there. This is how they use their best and brightest: they put them up as cannon fodder in an MPI that doesn't even make sense. The punctuation's not even right! The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Llew O'Brien ): If the member for Mackellar can pause for a minute. There is actually an MPI subject today, and I'd ask him to speak to it. Mr FALINSKI: With respect, Mr Deputy Speaker, no, there isn't. All that we've got here is some blather about— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member will pause for a moment. It should be written on a piece of paper that you've seen— Mr FALINSKI: It's a waste of paper, Deputy Speaker. It's a waste of paper. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: and that's what you'll be speaking to. If you can just keep it relevant, thank you. Mr FALINSKI: At least they're doing something for recycling today! At least the member for Fenner recycled a whole bunch of cliches. We're recycling plastic on this side; they're recycling cliches on that side. Let us not forget the mess—to call it a mess is really expanding the sense and definition of that word—in economic terms that those opposite left us with. They had a runaway budget deficit. They had rising unemployment. They had government debt rising at 30 per cent per annum. They made the labour market in this country more rigid than any other labour market in the world, and of course they won't talk about fixing that. I wonder: how much money did all of you get from the unions in the last election cycle? 'We won't talk about helping ordinary Australians because we wouldn't want to offend our biggest donors.' You guys are all about putting workers first! You guys put workers first! Just ask the people in the coalmines about workers. Just ask the teachers in schools about workers. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Llew O'Brien ): The member for Lyons, on a point of order? Mr FALINSKI: Thank you, I needed to take a breath anyway! Mr Brian Mitchell: On relevance. He's defying your ruling. He said next to nothing on the subject of the MPI. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member for Lyons can take a seat. Shortly after I made that ruling he did start actually talking about the economy, and he has got back there occasionally, so we'll let him go. Mr FALINSKI: Wow! The problem with these guys is that they don't even know what the economy is. I could be talking about the economy using crayons and butcher paper and they still wouldn't get it. Of course, the member for Fraser and the member for Fenner are exempt from that. Maybe they could help those on that side actually understand what an economy looks like. Every time they get into government, the economy disappears. There is no economy. You leave us with a mess. When we get back in government we fix up the mess you left. Then what do you do? You come to this place and complain about it. Do you know what this MPI should say? This MPI should say: 'We thank the Morrison government for fixing up the mess we left.' That's what it should say. Frankly, I'm going to pretend that's what it does say. That's a much-better MPI topic than the chatbot that the Leader of the Opposition's office came up with today. It's just absurd. Your responsible lending laws, which effectively make lenders responsible for the behaviour of borrowers, have dried up our capital markets and have destroyed the economy and economic activity. Now you come in here and say to us, 'Why haven't you fixed it yet?' You create the most rigid labour markets in the world. Under you real wages fell and under us they're increasing. Opposition members interjecting— Mr FALINSKI: Can't we all come together over a union official bullying a woman, who was a subcontractor, on a building site? I would have thought the parliament could come together over that. But not these blokes—no, no, no. They see the dollars going in the bank, they see the donors coming to the dinners and they're not interested. The SPEAKER: The member's time has expired. Mr FALINSKI: But I was just getting started. The SPEAKER: That's why time limits were introduced in 1905.