Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:31): I thank the member for Hume for his question and I congratulate him on his courage in asking it! The paradox of the last government was that they were obsessed with power, but they totally failed on energy. Australian families are paying the price for that failure. Let's have a look at what happened opposite when it came to power prices. An opposition member: Answer the question. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr ALBANESE: I was asked about power prices—okay, place your point of order. The SPEAKER: We are only a short time in the question, so I will call the Leader of the Opposition if this is on relevance, but I will listen carefully. What is the point of order? Mr Dutton: It's on relevance. We spent yesterday with you talking about the standards within this place. It's very clear that, in the words of Speaker Smith, given the tightness of this question, the Prime Minister needs to answer the question and restrict himself to the question. The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. The question was specific, and it mentioned 'during the campaign'. The Prime Minister is in order, and I will listen carefully to what he is saying. If you want a different answer, you'll have to ask a different question. I will call the Prime Minister, but I will be listening carefully. Mr ALBANESE: And I will go directly to the campaign and what happened, because this is what happened, and this is what we didn't know was what happening while the campaign was on. But they knew. They knew about the price increase in March. What we know is that one of the previous government's final acts was to hide that energy prices would be going up in July. They were advised in March that the default market offer price—for a household in New South Wales it increased by up to 19.7 per cent, and in Queensland it was by up to 12.8 per cent. They knew about it in March, but days before the election was called, they made a conscious decision to keep the information from Australians until after the election. And who might that have been? Who might that have been? That was the member for Hume, because the member for Hume was the actual minister at the time. What we will do is deliver an energy policy. It'll be the first one we've had in this country for a decade. They had 22 announcements and didn't deliver one. The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will just take his seat for a moment. We've already had one point of order on relevance. I will call the Manager of Opposition Business. I'll give you the call. Mr Fletcher: I am just making the point that he is defying your rule, Mr Speaker. The SPEAKER: Everyone just be quiet for one second. Manager, we've had the point of order. What is your point of order? Mr Fletcher: You need to bring the Prime Minister to comply with your ruling; he is defying your ruling— The SPEAKER: No; there is no point of order. I call the Prime Minister. Mr ALBANESE: I was asked about the energy crisis, and I was asked about what happened during the campaign. What happened during the campaign was that we promised an energy policy—just one. And we will deliver it. We will deliver it through our Powering Australia Plan. Those opposite had 22 announcements and didn't deliver one. Even when the NEG, the National Energy Guarantee, went through the Liberal party room twice—it went through the Liberal party room twice!—instead of implementing the policy they just rolled their leader.