Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:19): I thank the deputy leader for her question. The government of which she was a part, of course, knew all about introducing new taxes and new revenue measures. They introduced the changes to HECS thresholds and indexation. There was the introduction of the temporary budget repair levy, the reintroduction of fuel excise indexation, increased application charges for partner visas, increased depreciation life for computers and increased charges for visa applications. They introduced a cap on salary sacrificed meals and entertainment, changes to managed investment trusts, changes to the offshore banking unit regime, changes to FIFO workers, changes to tax rules for working holiday-makers, changes to the calculation of work related car expenses and changes to foreign investment fees for real estate and farming. There was the removal of the FTB part A large family supplement, the introduction of no jab, no pay for payments, the cessation of double dipping for paid parental leave. The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister— Mr ALBANESE: They increased passport fees, tobacco taxes. The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister will pause— Mr ALBANESE: They applied the GST on low-value goods. They introduced— The SPEAKER: so I can hear from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will pause for a moment. Order! There is far too much noise in the House. I'd like to hear from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on a point of order. Ms Ley: Mr Speaker, the point of order is relevance. The Prime Minister's long list of previous measures by this government is not remotely relevant to the detailed question that he was asked. The SPEAKER: The question was about the promise of commitments by the government and also why Australians do worse. I think the Prime Minister is doing a compare and contrast regarding that part of the question, but I'll ask him to return to the other part of the question for the remaining two minutes. Mr ALBANESE: Indeed, Mr Speaker, you could drive a truck through that question. What we had— Opposition members interjecting— Mr ALBANESE: What we had— The SPEAKER: Order! Mr ALBANESE: This is the mob that wanted a tax on every single time that you went to the doctor. But I'm asked by the deputy leader about our budget. My attention was drawn towards a quite extraordinary comment by the deputy Liberal leader. She said this about the RBA minutes: 'It sounds to me as if they are sounding alarm bells on this budget.' There's only one problem with that: the meeting was the week before the budget. So the RBA governor, apparently, is Nostradamus. It says everything about their catastrophic nonsense, where they carry on with: 'Everything is a catastrophe. Everything's a disaster. Everything's going to go wrong on their watch.' They have nothing constructive to add. But the only person who was more pleased and chuckling about that comment by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was the bloke who's sitting there.