Mr PERRETT (Moreton) (16:48): Obviously, this is a matter of 'not-very-importance', because there are three people opposite for the matter of public importance, so I'm going to digress for a minute and talk about something slightly personal. Today would have been my mum's 90th birthday if she were alive, so happy birthday to Peggy Perrett—Ellen Margaret Perrett—single mother of 10, who produced some wonderful people, including me! I'll go back to the matter of public importance. We're actually talking about cost of living, something we on this side of the parliament clearly care about, while those dilettantes opposite pay lip service to it. Since they came into opposition they've been like born-again Vinnies, Salvos, Sikh Volunteers, Muslim Charitable Foundation—those sorts of people. They're cosplaying friends of the working class: Comrade Dutton and the Bolsheviks, who suddenly care about the poor people. Let's look at their record. For 21 of the last 27 years, they've been on the treasury bench. What have they done in terms of looking after the working class? They like to cosplay, but they don't actually understand what their policies have visited on the poor people of Australia. We care about the working class. We care about all Australians. But I remember their policies and the bloodhounds of robodebt, sicking those horrible beasts onto poor people. Lives were lost. We had a royal commission into insulation when we insulated a couple of million homes, because there were two or three or four deaths. Think of the lives lost because of their decisions. And they're shameless. They don't apologise. The minister responsible for robodebt sits there smirking. We've never had an apology, but they dare to have an MPI to talk about cost-of-living expenses when we know that we've got the settings right. One of the big things is getting the energy costs right. Yesterday we saw former prime minister Abbott's painting hung under the flagpole. Today marks 13 years since Tony Abbott became Leader of the Opposition. Since then, this nation's energy policies have gone to hell in a handbasket. We've had 20-odd energy policies, and all can be traced back to Tony Abbott becoming the leader of that dreadful group opposite. Opposition members interjecting— Mr Burns: Twenty-two energy policies. Mr PERRETT: I'm not going to go through all 20 energy policies, Member for Macnamara, no, but I beg your pardon and take the interjection: 22 energy policies. But all can be traced back to Tony Abbott becoming leader, when he weaponised responding to dangerous climate change, the greatest moral challenge of our time, as it still is: something being visited on our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren because of Tony Abbott becoming leader. For those opposite to stand up and talk about cost of living without apologising for all those energy policies is reprehensible. We have a great record of all the things we're doing to reduce cost-of-living pressures: childcare, medicine, 180,000 TAFE places, more choices when it comes to energy because we believe in renewable energy. Why? Because it's cheaper. They pretend they're grabbing this mythical beast called nuclear energy when everyone, including these people that we call 'scientists' at the CSIRO, tell us that nuclear energy is much more expensive. Look at what we did for aged care, for manufacturing, for wages. We have done fair dinkum things. They cosplay that they are champions of the poor people in Australia. Their mouths say one thing and their feet do another when it comes to voting in the chamber. They've had a shameful record over the last, I'm going to say, 26 years—if you go back to March 1996. As soon as they got control of the Senate— Mr Neumann: WorkChoices. Mr PERRETT: I'll take that interjection from the member for Blair. We ran in that 2004 election, I seem to recall. Jimmy Barnes was wrong; there is no second prize. Thankfully, 2007 saw a change, where Labor did come into power and started to do things, like building affordable homes and putting more stock out there into the community to change lives rather than just make landlords happier. We were actually putting a roof over people's heads, and there were all the things that flowed from that. So, don't dare talk to us about cost of living, because you have been hypocrites from today right back to March 1996. (Time expired)