Question time in federal parliament

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT QUESTION TIME

WHAT WE LEARNED

* The government will deliver tax cuts "wherever we can", Treasurer Scott Morrison told MPs. In other words, don't hold your breath waiting for the May 10 budget.

* The government has the policies in place to reach Australia's carbon emissions reduction targets. "They are working," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull insisted.

* The PM, on the six-month anniversary of his elevation, noted consumer confidence had grown 11 per cent since mid-September.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN

Its decision to protect small business - the engine room of the Australian economy, says the PM - from the misuse of market power by big business.

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT

Tax cuts, and the likely prospect there won't be any in the May budget.

YOU SAID WHAT

"What is the point of this government?" shadow treasurer Chris Bowen asks Scott Morrison.

TWEETED

"Has anyone else noted how Labor no longer allows their backbench to ask any questions? Cannot be trusted?" Liberal MP Ewen Jones.