Mr HOGAN (Page—Deputy Manager of Opposition Business) (15:51): Deputy Speaker, I want to take you back—it wasn't really that long ago—to the election campaign we had through March, April and the early part of May of last year. If you were look at the news clips and the campaign slogans, there were a few campaign slogans from the other side. If you look at the press conferences that the now government and then opposition held, and if you look at what they were putting out into their campaign paraphernalia, they were saying some very specific things. One of the main themes they ran with was that families and people were going to be better off under Labor. Now, when people hear that they are going to be better off, it has very clear connotations to Australians that they are going to be better off financially. They were quite specific, to give them credit. I will give the now government and then opposition credit because at least they did come up and say exactly what they planned to do. They said on hundreds of occasions—I think the Prime Minister was known to say it on 50 or 60 occasions, and many other ministers said the same thing—that they had one of the most extensively modelled campaign commitments that have ever done. They weren't just making it up, they weren't just having a guess at the figure; they said they had extensively modelled, better than any opposition in the country's history, that they were going to give every family a $275 cut to their power bill. They were even saying that after the election. Some of the ministers after the May election were then saying, 'Yes, that's right.' The Prime Minister didn't, but some others were caught out in interviews still saying that. Then, of course, there was a dawning, and the now minister for climate change suddenly said, 'Maybe things happened,' and did a bit of a slow crab walk away from it. Mr Rae interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): The member for Hawke. Mr HOGAN: The joke about the other side is they say, 'The Ukraine war!'; but the Ukraine war started before the election, sunshine! The Ukraine war was going before the election. They were saying they were going to do a $275 power bill cut when the Ukraine war was on, but suddenly after the election they say, 'The Ukraine war means we can't do it.' Mr Rae interjecting— Mr HOGAN: The Ukraine war was going before the election. Go back and google it. Mr Rae interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Member for Hawke, if I say it again, you're out. Mr HOGAN: The other thing they talk about is supply issues, but suddenly— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Member for Page, I'm not deaf. Mr HOGAN: Good point, Deputy Speaker. I couldn't hear myself because of the loudmouth over there. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am feeling it, so let's dial it down. Mr HOGAN: I am glad you called him out. The other thing was, those opposite talked about the Ukraine war, which started before the election, but suddenly it was a problem after the election with their power bill promise. They then said 'supply-side constraints'. Well, wasn't that put into the extensive modelling that was done? Apparently not. I would have thought that a lot of the supply-side constraints got better post COVID. Not only that but in the October budget, a few months later, they said, 'Actually, your energy bills are going to go up 50 or 60 per cent over the next couple of years.' It was exceptionally deceitful of this government. What is their solution to that? Their solution—this is a smart—to the problems with power prices is actually to cut one of the supplies to energy transmission—that is, gas. In the gas industry, many people are saying those opposite have stuffed up the supply of gas into the system. That was their solution. We will see how that plays out, but I will not put anything on it to lower prices. The other thing the government said was 'cheaper mortgages'. Can you actually believe they said this? In April and early May, they were saying, 'We're going to give you cheaper mortgages.' Now their line is, 'There are a lot of things in train that you did that mean it is not going to happen.' Could they not see it then? They couldn't see any problems with delivering cheaper mortgages before the election, saying 'you're going to have cheaper mortgages' but, suddenly, after the election, there have been eight interest rates increases from eight Reserve Bank board meetings. Before that, the government were saying 'cheaper mortgages' but, no, there are all these things happening. Did they not see that when they were saying 'cheaper mortgages'? Again, it was exceptionally deceitful to the men and women and families of Australia. You would think, 'Okay, the Treasurer would have solutions to this.' His solution was a waffly 6,000-word essay. (Time expired)