Ms LEY (Farrer—Leader of the Opposition) (16:05): We heard much in question time today about delivery—the 'D' word—from the Prime Minister and his backbench, many questions and many non-answers about delivery. But I want to remind the House what the Prime Minister has actually delivered this year. What has actually been delivered is: a higher cost of living, higher power prices and higher inflation. And, sadly, Australians are looking down the barrel of higher interest rates next year. While we hear about the cost-of-living relief, there really is not anything that could come close to the pain that struggling households are experiencing, and I wish this Prime Minister and this government took these things seriously. Because instead of focusing on the things that matter, they are focusing on things that do not matter. The real issue that does not matter right now is the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and his traversing the globe in the interests of his new appointment as the full-time COP president, leaving behind a part-time energy grid. It is just not good enough. We have a plan that is affordable and responsible—affordable energy and responsible emissions reduction—because that is how you bring down the cost of energy in this country. We want to focus on energy because we understand in the Liberals and Nationals that when energy is unaffordable everything is unaffordable. Look at the trifecta of failures that we are facing: prices are going up, reliability is going down and emissions are flatlining. That is a trifecta of failure. While you look at the Labor party with targets they cannot possibly meet at a cost that Australians cannot possibly afford, you know that this energy policy is a train wreck. So instead of a minister dedicated to the task, what is he doing? He is receiving calendar invites from 180 countries in COP. He would be looking through them right now; he is not in the chamber. Where will he start? Maybe he will start with Azerbaijan because that is where the last president was from. And you might as well start with 'A' because there is a long list of countries to get through—180. He will check in with the president of Azerbaijan, and then maybe he will go to the Iberian Peninsula just to look at what happens to a full renewables grid when it crashes, but he will not see it quite that way. Then maybe he will squeeze in a visit to Davos for a fireside chat on hydrogen, over to Houston to lecture big oil, perhaps back to the Amazon, bring the band back together in Belem, and then triumphantly arrive at the end of the year in Turkiye. I don't know whether you arrive when you are a COP president. Maybe you have your entourage, there is pomp and circumstance— Mr Taylor: A yacht. Ms LEY: Who knows, Member for Hume, there may be a yacht. There may be all sorts of things. But what we know there won't be is a focus—the laser-like focus he said he would have—on power bills for Australians. And it was pathetic to listen to him say' wholesale energy prices may be coming down', because we want to see your electricity bill. When you open it, we want to see a real reduction and we want to see a government that cares about that real reduction. How can we have an energy minister who is full-time? There is only one year before the next COP, there are 180 countries, so many countries and so little time. Ms Price: He better get going. Ms LEY: Perhaps he is already on the way, member for Durack, because there is a lot of work to do. What a massive, massive failure. What we need to do is remind the Australian people, and I don't think they need reminding because they have heard these things from this Labor Prime Minister. He promised real and lasting plans for cheaper electricity, and they would cut power bills by $275. It was almost to the day—a couple of days—$275 this year, next year and every year. He promised that Australia could be the land of cheap and endless energy, that no-one would be held back, no-one would be left behind—and on and on. Ms Price: We've never had it so good! Ms LEY: We've never had it so good! And do you know, with this $1 trillion debt—$50,000 a minute in interest on the national credit card, being so generous with borrowed money—you would think Australians would feel they had achieved something for this, but they don't. They are falling further and further behind, struggling, punished by a government policy that has not backed them in. But do you know what we didn't hear today? We didn't hear a delivery about something very important that the Albanese government has not done. It has not done anything around its Made in Australia policy. I want to take everybody back to the Future Made in Australia announcement. Future Made in Australia was 18 months ago. We all heard that there was $22 billion, there was a front door—does anyone remember the front door? There was a front door—it's a new bureaucracy. You go through the front door and you get something that enables you to be a business, an organisation, a manufacturer of something made in Australia. So I thought I'd check it out. I went on the website. How much of the $22 billion has been spent on the front door? Zero. Do you know what's happening on the website? They're in the consultation phase. Eighteen months later, they're in the consultation phase. The member for Hume, the member for Wannon and the deputy leader, who all understand energy really well, will recognise what I'm about to say. A few weeks ago I stood at Tomago Aluminium, in the same spot—I made sure it was the same spot—that the Prime Minister stood in January this year. He pointed to Tomago Aluminium and said, 'This is what a future made in Australia looks like.' He said that this aluminium smelter will be employing Australians for 40 more years, and he spruiked the big renewable energy transition. Anyway, when I was there, it was a completely different story. The Prime Minister was nowhere to be seen. The Tomago aluminium smelter was switched on in 1983. It has run 24/7 since 1983. You can't turn a smelter off. Not only that, but it's pretty much the best aluminium smelter in the world. The member for Grey is nodding, because he knows. He's got smelters in his electorate, and they're all on life support, or they've run up the white flag. And we don't have Made in Australia; we have bailed out in Australia, because under this government's energy plan you actually can't make things in Australia. So you didn't hear, in the year of delivery, anything from this government about Made in Australia. I'll tell you what we don't make in Australia anymore that we should be making in Australia. We don't make plastics—the sorts of plastics that go into packaging, agriculture and production. We don't make nitrogen fertilisers. We barely make any cement. We import nearly all our bitumen. We don't make any architectural glass. The housing minister's not here. She should be listening to this, because one of the reasons houses are so expensive is that everything in the house has to come from overseas, and everyone who was making steel and aluminium, glass and bricks has been punished by the safeguard mechanism under this government. You new members should really have a look at this safeguard mechanism, because it taxes you if you make emissions. So, do you know what happens? Someone else makes the emissions somewhere else in the world. Does the planet know the difference? Unfortunately not. But what we see here in this country is that there is no Made in Australia. Do you all want to live in a country that doesn't make things anymore—the things that are the modern building blocks of a civilised society? Look at how they've gone offshore. In fact, it's been estimated by experts that you listen to that in order for you, the Labor Party, to reach your 2030— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): Just direct your comments to me, through the chair, please. And fewer interjections from that side, on the government benches, would be helpful. Ms LEY: Chair—to reach the 2035 targets, it will cost $530 billion from where we are now—it's already cost $75 billion, and it will be another $530 billion—to get, notionally, to the 2035 targets. But $150 billion of business, industry, manufacture will have gone offshore. I don't think the Labor Party understands that, and I don't think they really appreciate what their energy plan is doing to the things that really matter in this country, the things we care about. I'll tell you what we care about. We care about households, we care about small businesses and we care about energy bills. We care about families sitting at their Christmas dinner wondering what's going to happen next year with back to school and all the costs that they're facing. We've got a government that has delivered a higher cost of living, higher power prices and higher inflation—and, unfortunately, the possibility of higher interest rates next year. So we're coming back next year. We're energised. We're enthused. We're fighting hard for the Australian people, who are counting on us. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): The member for Casey on a point of order? Mr Violi: To the assist the House, the member for Hughes continues to interject, out of this seat. It's highly disorderly— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Take a seat! Honest to goodness, the interjections that were flying across—I have warned people— Honourable members interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think interjections are disorderly whether you are in your seat or out of your seat, frankly. Mr Kennedy interjecting— The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Member for Cook, would you like to leave the chamber? No? Then please be respectful of the standing orders. I'm in the middle of responding to your member raising a point of order. Would you like to continue your comments as well, member for Bowman? I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have these kinds of conversations with you. I barely got to hear every second sentence from the Leader of the Opposition; I would have liked to have heard much more of her speech. I will now hear from government members, and I will take it in turns. I'd like to listen to you all.