Tony Burke takes a dixer to say:

We have in this 48th Parliament, since the election, because we have an Albanese Labor government, cut 20 per cent of student debt.

Because we have an Albanese Labor government having cheaper medicines.

Because we have an Albanese Labor government protecting penalty rates for Australian workers. Because we have an Albanese Labor government 5 per cent deposits for first home buyers.

And add to that today because we have an Albanese Labor government, long awaited environmental reforms… Hear, hear!

And I might say Australian content obligations for streamers. Hear, hear!

But that approach to delivery, which we see in the work of the Parliament, for other members of Parliament, the approach to delivery would be better represented at Christmas time by the movies that people watch at the end of the year.

Because the great Christmas story, the Christmas Carol, I suggest they all watch a version of it, probably the muppet version of the Christmas Carol, and in doing so don’t focus on the tragedy of tiny Tim.

…They should watch out for the ghosts of Christmas past because we had two of them today. The ghosts of Christmas past where their former Prime Minister referring to Liberals today as ‘Insane conversations about energy’, where he said, ‘Energy policy should be determined by engineering and economics not ideology and idiocy.”

The other ghost of Christmas past, the member for New England.

Who was the deputy to Malcolm Turnbull, has decided to declare today that he will refuse to join any political party that will have him as a leader.

Because it won’t be long before they do move on from that movie and with Love Actually we’ll have the member for New England turning up at a Queensland doorstep for a different party holding a sign saying ‘To me you are perfect’.

But the Leader of the Opposition, while those opposite are watching… The Leader of the Opposition can spend that time watching Home Alone.