Question time in federal parliament

QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

WHAT WE LEARNED * Once again, Australia is growing faster than all the major developed economies in the world. Of all the G20 economies, we are on top of the pack, Treasurer Scott Morrison proudly proclaimed about the latest national accounts.

* Competency looks like the 23.7 per cent year-on-year increase in agricultural outputs, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said as he taunted Labor MPs.

* Intelligence agency the Australian Signals Directorate was required to use diesel generators as a precaution during the February heatwaves. That, said Cyber Security Minister Dan Tehan, was an example of why energy security is a direct threat to our national security.

* In the previous financial year the government identified $695 million in social welfare overpayments - a 300 per cent increase since 2013 - Human Services Minister Alan Tudge told MPs.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN All of our policies and measures are focused on delivering stronger economic growth.

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT

Why is it that under the Turnbull government, when companies receive record profits they get tax cuts but when wages flat line, workers get pay cuts?

THEY SAID WHAT

"The independent umpire has served workers well, it has served employers well, it has served Australia well." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

TWEETED

@TimWattsMP: Seriously. ASD won't be able to protect Australians from the hackers because of renewable energy. This is what Turnbull has been reduced to.