Dr CHALMERS (Rankin—Treasurer) (14:25): I'm pleased to get this question from the shadow Treasurer, for two reasons. First of all is that it gives me the opportunity to explain to the House—and explain to the relevant journalist who asked me the question—that I misheard the question at the National Press Club. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Members on my left will cease interjecting. Dr CHALMERS: I was temporarily blinded by the vast influence of Charles Croucher, who has inherited this remarkable position of power in this building from Laurie Oakes and Chris Uhlmann! I say, as I said to Charles when I rang him straight after the Press Club—I rang Charles and I rang Laura Tingle—that I thought he was asking me a different question. I misheard it, and I answered a different question. So I say again to Charles, who is in the gallery—through you, Mr Speaker—that I misheard his question. And I am genuinely grateful—for once!—to the member for Hume for the opportunity to talk about this. Mr Taylor interjecting— The SP EAKER: The member for Hume will cease interjecting. Dr CHALMERS: The other reason that I am genuinely delighted to get this question from the member for Hume on energy prices is— The SPEAKER: The Treasurer will resume his seat. The Treasurer is not halfway through his answer, but I will hear from the member for Petrie. Mr Howarth: Mr Speaker, it's on relevance. It's been one minute and 17 seconds. How long is the preamble that he gets? The SPEAKER: The Treasurer is referring directly to what he was asked about. That is not a point of order. Dr CHALMERS: I reassure the member for Petrie that my answer is not going to be about the shadow Treasurer's history of doctoring documents. My answer is going to be about energy prices. He asked me about energy prices. Mr Hamilton interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Groom will cease interjecting. Dr CHALMERS: I pay tribute to the opposition tactics committee, who decided, on today of all days, that the matter of public importance today will be the shadow Treasurer talking about energy prices. When I got given this by my office, I couldn't believe my eyes. The guy who has his fingerprints all over this energy policy chaos that we've inherited, the guy who was more responsible than anyone else in this building for the fact that we've had this wasted decade which has given us energy policy chaos, has the nerve to ask us a question about energy prices! This is the guy who gave us the wasted decade of missed opportunities, with electricity market chaos, and, now that we've got this war in Ukraine, our energy markets are more vulnerable than they should be because of the rank incompetence of the shadow Treasurer. We've spoken in this place before about the sense of humour that the opposition tactics committee has in giving the shadow Treasurer questions on energy prices. Before, when everybody jumped at the same time to ask a question and, Mr Speaker, you didn't give the call to the shadow Treasurer, the biggest sigh of relief came from over there, because he has got his fingerprints all over this energy policy crisis. Mr Taylor interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Hume will stop yelling. Dr CHALMERS: He hid an energy price increase from the Australia people during the election, and they won't forget it. Mr Hamilton interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Groom has been continually interjecting. He is warned.