Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:34): They say all roads lead to Rome. But all Rhodes scholarships clearly don't lead anywhere. Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! Members on my left will remain silent. Mr ALBANESE: The shadow Treasurer had a moment of clarity recently. This is what he had to say about energy policy. He said this: The development of interconnectors and transmission is critical to bringing new generation capacity into the energy system, while shoring up reliability and affordability across state borders. Pretty good statement. Well done, Angus. Then he went on to say, 'Thousands of kilometres of new transmission is likely to be needed to connect new generation.' So you compare the rhetoric that they have and they had before the election, where they spoke about—they were going to have all of this new generation but, in fact, they had four gigs out and only one gig in. They now are trying to run a scare campaign about transmission and that we should have an energy system without transmission that completely contradicts what they said before the election. They didn't do anything about it. They had some 22 energy policies and didn't land one. So it's no wonder that my friend the Treasurer, here— Mr Burns interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Macnamara will cease interjecting. Mr ALBANESE: and we've only got one, can't get a question from the shadow Treasurer. All we get is recycled questions from the bloke who was the largest failure— The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will pause. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: When the House comes to order, I'll hear from the member for Hume on a point of order. Mr Tay lor: Relevance. It was a very clear question: whether the Prime Minister will take responsibility for his failed budget. The SPEAKER: Resume your seat. The question was broad about the Prime Minister's budget, about inflation, about prices and other aspects, and— Ms Ley interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order, Deputy Leader of the Opposition. While I'm speaking and ruling on the member for Hume, I'd ask the House to remain silent. The Prime Minister is in order and I give him the call. Mr ALBANESE: In the point of order, the shadow Treasurer then finally got around to asking a question about the budget. But he did it in a point of order rather than ask the question to the Treasurer, because he's simply not up to the task of taking on the Treasurer when it comes to economic policy. Those opposite were responsible for a decade of denial, a decade of failure, 22 different policy announcements and didn't land one—not a single one—because they were too interested in the power struggles of their internals and not worried about powering up Australia by fixing up the energy sector. We will do it. (Time expired)