Peter Dutton opens the questions with the most obvious – a variation of a Coalition favourite – why is the Labor government so crap.

Dutton:

My question is to the Prime Minister: Under this this weak Albanese Government interest rates have increased 12 times, energy bills have risen by $1,000, living standards have collapsed, 27,000 businesses have gone insolvent and we’re at a record breaking household recession. Will the Prime Minister now apologise for promising Australians they would be better off and admit they can’t afford another three years of this weak Albanese Labor Government?

Just in case you didn’t catch it ‘weak Albanese government’ is one of the election slogans. Anthony Albanese responds with the low energy version of a press release (he obviously has the key points in front of him) which we don’t need to bore you with here (he treats it like a dixer).

Michael Sukkar gets to stand up and make his QT debut as the member for opposition business and Tony Burke gets to once again show he knows more about the standing orders than anyone of the Coalition benches and the ensuring back and forth seems to give Albanese some energy.

He finishes with:

If they had their way, there wouldn’t be cheaper medicines. If they had their way, there wouldn’t be cheaper child care. If they had their way, there wouldn’t have been any rebates on energy bills. If they had their way, there wouldn’t be tax cuts for every taxpayer.

And we now know that they have come up with a cost-of-living plan but it’s just not for workers, it’s for workers to pay for some of their mates to have lunch.