Mr ROB MITCHELL (McEwen) (16:02): Supporting our most vulnerable and delivering a slim, responsible budget surplus are not mutually exclusive. Just because the Greens can't fathom that doesn't mean Labor can't do it. The best way that we can respond to a cost-of-living crisis is to halt the scourge of inflation, and for the government to pay its dues. Much in the same way that households feel the cost-of-living pressures, so do government. It's easy to posture and post moronic graphics on social media, all the while moving the goalposts on acceptable fiscal policy, but it is a whole other matter to deliver a budget that supports single parents, invests in women and restores funding to our national institutions. We've had to clean up and consolidate projects that the other lot left behind, because it has become increasingly obvious that the opposition can't finish anything. But the Greens can't fathom balancing a budget or understand the real, grown-up challenges that come with a budget. I suggest that maybe it's time they grow up. Maybe it is time they gave up word art and got into the modern day when they're posting their memes. What we saw last night was just an example of the student-politics-based Greens party in this place. They've gone from a green environmental movement and a social justice movement to nothing but a bunch of obstructionists, who actually sit there and pontificate about all these wonderful things that they could do, but they will never be in a position to do them, and they never do. The hypocrisy over there is writ large. You hear them talking about how we should have rent freezes and we should do this and we should do that. The Greens own 15 investment properties. That includes members who have three. An honourable member interjecting— Mr ROB MITCHELL: I don't know any of them; maybe you'd be able to help. But, of course, all we hear from them is constant carping, whinging and complaining but never real solutions. You would think, if public housing and affordable housing were issues as big as the Greens like to pontificate they are, they would do something about them. At the first opportunity that came forward, Greens MPs, Greens counsellors blocked public housing. Because, when they talk about public housing and affordable housing, they don't want it in their inner-city electorates—'Oh, no, we can't have those people living in our areas.' They blocked every one. Go and talk to the member for Melbourne and ask him about the blocking by the Yarra council on Fitzroy. If you want affordable housing and if you want social housing, you need to put them where jobs are. You need to put them where services are, and you need to put them where transport is. But every single time there is a proposal to build affordable and public housing in the city where these things are, they say no. The reality is the elitists that sit over there want to have public housing areas but not in their areas—'Oh, no, let's put those people out in the suburbs,' then complained there are no services. It is absolutely ironic that you sit there and say, 'I'm going to bring a matter of public importance to the parliament. This is the most important thing we need to deal with on a day-to-day basis, but they couldn't even last five minutes on their speech. All they were doing was ranting and raving about nothing. They had no positive plans, no solutions, no support. You would think, if you wanted public housing to be there, you would be supporting homes for people fleeing family violence. But, no, they don't; they blocked the bill. You've got the senators over there in the sleepy Senate. Go in there and tell them to support the bill and get things happening. All we see is a continuation by the Greens to constantly block, obstruct and carry on like pork chops—as we saw last night with that meme by the Greens that went out on the budget. It was the most childish thing I've seen in this place, and, believe me, I've seen a lot of things. That was ridiculous. Ms Fernando: Using clip art! Mr ROB MITCHELL: Using clip art! It's not even a program from this decade. That's how far behind they are. It was absolutely silly and childish. What we've done is sit down and look at the mess that we were left by those opposite, and we've actually formulated a budget that helps people. People will be able to see a doctor. People fleeing family violence can get a house. People on low incomes can get a house—all these opportunities to go forward. Yet we keep hearing the wailing and the screaming and the carry on about billionaires getting tax cuts. What the Greens have proposed is people earning $45,000 a year do not deserve a tax cut. That is exactly what they've said, and they've tried to claim that's the billionaires. Well, I can tell you that people earning 45 grand a year do not own three investment properties.