Anne Webster comes back to her question from yesterday, because she wants to make the point about the prime minister being chased by tractors again.

Again – this is a complete double standard. This is being celebrated by the Coalition. If a pro-Palestinian protester got in a giant vehicle and chased after the prime minister’s car after an event, there would be absolute hell to pay.

Webster:

The Prime Minister told the bush summit “I won’t BS people”. The Prime Minister promised Australians a $275 reduction in their energy bills prior to the 2022 election. Hasn’t that now proven to be BS? Is this broken promise the reason why the Prime Minister was chased out of town by a convoy of tractors?

That commitment was two elections ago by the way, and was not mentioned at the last election.

Albanese:

I did attend a meeting in Ballarat last week and I attended a meeting in Wagga Wagga as well. I attend regularly regional events. When I do, I inform the members as the member for Page would know, as the member for Maranoa would know, as the member for Riverina would know and I took the member for Riverina to the event in his electorate last week. I have attended an event with the member for Mallee where I opened a local community infrastructure at the invitation of the local council.

There were schools there because it was the first time a Prime Minister had visited Horsham, a small community, in some 40 years. There were school children there, lots of people there. The member for Mallee, I rang up, invited to come along.

The member chose to organise people to come along and yell with loud hailers and to disrupt…

I … was fine with that, as I was last week when I engaged in one on one discussions but I do make this point.

Yesterday, a Neo-Nazi crashed the events with the Victorian Order, the Leader of The Premier. Nationals is going to cease interjecting.

I tell you what is dangerous – what is dangerous is encouraging and I was there, as was the member for Maranoa, he knows that the Australian Federal Police had organised a cut off area…a cut-off area so that indeed no-one was chased as the member put it in her question.

Indeed, I, because of the presence of the AFP, I attended a dinner the night before. I went around all of the tables and discussed that with farmers.

Anne Webster gets up. Milton Dick warns her against having a point of order on relevance, as Albanese is being relevant. Webster says it is on relevance. Dick makes her sit down.

Albanese:

I tell you what is dangerous, the encouragement of an event where someone stands on a chair in the second row with a noose around their neck at a time when people are taking their own life is a really serious issue.

All I would say is this – I’m always prepared to front up.

I front up in seats right across this parliament. I front up outside my electorate office which the demonstrations are a lot more willing than what was there in Ballarat the other day.

I front up when coffins are brought to the front of my office with my name on it and front up and address those people and I address them respectfully.

I say this, Mr Speaker to the parliament, you need to be responsible.