Australia politics live: PM calls Coalition ‘Liberal One National party’ and Taylor ‘Temu-Abbott’ as Hastie booted from question time

And now the niceties are over and the question time we know (and sometimes love) begins, with Angus Taylor asking the prime minister why migration is the government’s “only strategy to achieve economic growth” when GDP per capita is going backwards.

Anthony Albanese gives the Solomon Islands PM a nod and jokes, “I said that our parliament can often be a bit robust. It began well, and it’s headed downhill pretty quickly.”

Albanese says the economy is in fact growing, despite the breakout of war in the Middle East.

double quotation mark There is no country you would rather be than Australia, particularly if you talk to people in our region about what is happening, countries in our region where they have compulsory public holidays once a week, because there isn’t enough fuel.

The opposition tries to make a point of order on relevance, saying that they asked about migration, but Albanese continues, and gives us a new insult for the opposition that I’m sure we’ll be hearing more.

double quotation mark We have the leader of the ‘Liberal One National party’ over there who comes in here … in spite of the fact that they know that the migration rate has fallen by 45% and what they do is come in here, pretend that we’re immune from a global impact of a global war.