Mr BIRRELL (Nicholls) (15:46): I say to the member for Canberra: all the best. I'm a member from regional Australia, as I think everyone knows by now. I want to talk, though, to the people of metropolitan Australia. Often, it is said, there is a divide, and there is. There are different experiences in the country compared to the city. But what happens in regional Australia and the policies that affect what people do in regional Australia affect people in metropolitan areas. If a government is not looking after the regions, then it's not governing for everyone. And it's not only affecting the regional people; it's affecting people in the cities as well. We all live in this great country together. Obviously, the thing we have in common, apart from the need to breathe and drink water, is the need to eat. Agriculture is critically important in this country. The people in places like my electorate, the food bowl of Australia, are incredibly proud of what they do, because they want to see people enjoying healthy, sustainably produced Australian produce. This government is making it harder for businesses to produce healthy, sustainable, Australian produced produce. Their changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, the live export trade and the biosecurity tax that, thankfully, got scuppered in the Senate—all of these things, along with a raft of others including some renewable rollouts on agricultural land—make it harder for people to do that. I believe we will see an increase in food prices, because if you make it harder for Australian farmers to produce you see an increase in food prices. An increase in food prices is not good for people anywhere in Australia. If you damage food production, you're not governing for all Australians. The electricity grid transition is not going well. The Prime Minister promised all of these people a $275 reduction in their electricity bills based on some RepuTex modelling, which he's now running away from, at a rate that even the member for Canning couldn't catch him! Mr Hastie: Andrew Leigh could. Mr BIRRELL: Maybe. But $275 was promised, and it hasn't been delivered. You're not governing for people if you go and tell them something and then say, 'We've actually stuffed the policy up, and now we can't deliver it.' You're not governing for all Australians when you attack the historic dynamism of the Australian economy. By putting too much emphasis on Public Service jobs—and I completely respect what public servants do; we absolutely need them—that sector of the economy and the jobs market, then there's not enough emphasis and there's too much competition for the private sector, small businesses, to be able to do what they do. I think it's really important that governments appreciate the great responsibility that they've been given. Every one of the 150 of us in this place represents roughly 110,000 people. Some of those people vote for us; some of those people don't. We've got to represent them all. When we come into this place in question time, we ask questions and we represent the people in our electorates. People who do that deserve respectful, considered answers. They don't deserve attacks. They don't deserve theatrical flourishes. Today, the member for Mallee asked a question. It was a reasonable question about concerns that people in her electorate have. The member for Fowler asked a very reasonable question. It was a question based on the concern of a particular business in her electorate, but it's a concern that goes all across the people of her electorate and all of our electorates, which is gas prices. Those two women, who represent people in Australia and who have been elected to this place, deserve the respect of a reasonable answer. What I saw from where I was sitting was a pile on. It didn't look good, it was disrespectful, and it goes against the kinder, gentler parliament that the Prime Minister promised. He needs to be governing for all Australians— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): The member for Moreton has the call.