Mr VIOLI (Casey) (16:18): I would like to commend the member for Nichols for his contribution, a wonderful contribution about the importance of supporting farmers. We need to let farmers farm. My community has a strong agricultural community, like his, and it is so important that they can do their work and grow the food that feeds the country at a very cheap price. I also want to commend the member for Hume for this important motion. The cost of living is no doubt the biggest issue that the community is facing at the moment. They feel it every day. It was quite interesting that, when I was reading the papers on Sunday, I came across an article that I thought summed up my feelings quite well, so I will take the opportunity to read from the paper: People feel the quality of life is going down and government makes it worse, with large targets for immigration and people forced out of affordable housing. They think we haven't solved [the cost-of-living crisis] and that [the voice] was a project for elites, not for them. The government has to focus on cost of living. Those are very strong words, a great quote from the member for Macarthur. The member for Macarthur has laid it out quite well for us all. The article also notes that many other Labor backbenchers supported his view but weren't prepared to go on the record, so I do commend the member for Macarthur for saying what many of those opposite are thinking and feeling. It takes courage for him to come out and say that. Hopefully some others on that side will follow his lead. That's the reality with this Prime Minister, as the member for Macarthur put so well—he is not focused on costs of living and he doesn't have any answers for the Australian people. He doesn't have solutions to the problems the country faces. You see that in question time. Whenever he's asked a question by us or by his own side, he pivots and talks about the opposition and the opposition leader. I was trying to work out who he reminded me of, and it came to me today in question time. It's Brooks. For those that haven't seen TheShawshank Redemption—I'm sure many have—go and watch it. It's a great movie. Mr Rae interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): Member for Hawke. Mr VIOLI: Brooks was institutionalised. After 27 years in parliament, this Prime Minister has spent 20 years of those 27 years in opposition. Mr Burns interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Member for McNamara, do not interject. At any time, it is rude, but, outside of your seat, it is especially disorderly. Sorry, Member for Casey. Mr VIOLI: Thank you. He spent 27 years in parliament—20 years in opposition; seven years in government. He has had 18 months now as Prime Minister, but six of those years were in the glory years of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era. This is the reality. This Prime Minister knows opposition. It's his natural habitat. So when he gets asked a question, he can't provide solutions to the Australian people; he just attacks and criticises the opposition. That's all he knows—being in opposition. It would be funny if it didn't actually hurt the Australian people. There are many examples of these—and I've only got a minute and a half left; I can't go through them all—but one great example of this Prime Minister being more suited to opposition is with fuel prices. Fuel prices today in Canberra are at around $2.13 at the bowser and $2.35 for diesel. In 2021, when it was $1.79, the then opposition leader, now Prime Minister, was very happy to criticise the Prime Minister of the day for petrol prices and not doing enough to bring them down. So, apparently, when you're in opposition, and it's at $1.79, it's an issue. When it's $2.13 now for the Australian people, and he's actually in power and can do something about it, he has not a word about it, not a solution. But what did the then government, now opposition, do when petrol hit over $2 because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? It acted. It cut the fuel excise in half and capped it at six months, a policy that gave relief to the Australian people when they needed it, straightaway, but made it limited so it didn't have long-term structural impacts on the budget. That's an action that the former government took with petrol prices. But what do this Prime Minister and those opposite have to say about petrol prices when they're at $2.13? Nothing. The Australian people know this Prime Minister can complain and his natural habitat is in opposition. He has no solutions for the Australian people, and they feel it every day.