Mrs PHILLIPS (Gilmore) (14:05): My question is to the Prime Minister. How has the Albanese Labor government used the last two weeks of parliament to deliver for every Australian, and what has stood in the way?
Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:05): Over the last fortnight of the parliament, we have concentrated on major reforms that will make a real difference for people—legislation to provide cost-of-living relief, including helping 40,000 Australians buy a home, free TAFE, fixing HECS indexation and increased wages for early childhood workers of 15 per cent; 10 per cent starts next week as a direct result of what we have done. We've also done major reforms to build and strengthen our future—importantly, major aged-care reform, the most significant reform in a generation, and we will have Future Made in Australia legislation passed in the Senate this afternoon. We've also got important legislation on social media to protect our young people. We also have important migration legislation that will also pass the Senate later today. Indeed the Senate is expected to pass more than 30 pieces of legislation just today, making a real difference, building more rental properties to take pressure off renters, protecting consumers purchasing buy-now pay-later products, strengthening Australia's protections against money laundering, strengthening and modernising the Reserve Bank of Australia, and legislating an objective for superannuation, making it clear that it is about a dignified retirement for more Australians.
This is what it looks like to have a government that's prepared to work across the parliament to turn promises into progress. What those opposite have done consistently is just seek to oppose. We're getting things done; they're just getting angry, as we just saw during the last question. We're acting responsibly; they're acting recklessly. We're cutting the cost of living; they're cutting Medicare, pensions and housing. That's what they want to do. We're fighting for Australians to earn more and keep more of what they earn; they want people to work longer for less. We're fighting inflation; they're fighting amongst themselves. They talk a lot about industrial relations, but they have spent the last 2½ years on strike just saying no to absolutely everything whenever they could and not putting up an alternative. There have been almost three years of the parliament sitting, and this Leader of the Opposition is yet to come up with a single costed alternative policy.
