- Asbestos disease survivors were in the public gallery.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN

- The coalition is providing the stability and certainty that Australians want.

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT

- The prime minister is not addressing underemployment, soft wages growth and low household savings.

WHAT THEY SAID

"Our planet is cooking while the government cooks the books." - Independent Andrew Wilkie on government climate policy.

"There's a climate fight club going on over the other side, but the thing they have forgotten about climate fight club is you are not supposed to talk about it." - Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

"Can he confirm that the ensuring integrity bill will mean the same actions taken by unions for asbestos could result in union officials being struck off, unions being deregistered and rogue employers like James Hardie getting off scot-free?" - Labor leader Anthony Albanese.

"It is a ridiculous proposition to suggest that anything other than the most serious, repetitive law-breaking would ever result in deregistration .... this (bill) is not about those victims." - Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter.

"When will the prime minister admit his Future Drought Fund hasn't delivered and will never deliver one cent directly to desperate farming families." - Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon.

"The Future Drought Fund is not to provide direct financial assistance payment to farmers, it's there to provide direct support for water resilience projects, to fund for the future." - Mr Morrison.

Australian Associated Press