Federal parliament question time

QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT:

WHAT WE LEARNED:

* Optimists outnumber pessimists, Malcolm Turnbull leaps on the latest Westpac/Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index to spruik growing confidence since he became prime minister.

* Australian forces have destroyed a number of Daesh tactical units and fighting positions over the past week, the foreign minister tells MPs.

* An online survey about private health insurance has attracted "thousands, not hundreds" of responses since it was launched on Sunday, Health Minister Sussan Ley reveals.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN:

Anything do with growing the economy, including the China free-trade deal, the plan for Northern Australia and "backing Australians who are out there, working and saving and investing every day".

WANTED LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:

It's sort of Groundhog Day, to use the PM's words because it's all about the GST for the third day straight. "You're no Bill Murray!" Labor's Graham Perrett tells him.

THEY SAID WHAT:

"The leader of the opposition, when he was a minister, agreed with the prime minister without knowing what she said and now he wants to ask questions of us about policies we don't have," Treasurer Scott Morrison responds to a Labor question on the GST.

TOP TWEET:

"MT doesn't make decisions he just makes speeches," Labor MP Joanne Ryan.