BARRIE CASSIDY, PRESENTER: It was another ordinary week for the Government, bogged down with faux debates and confusion over car industry subsidies.

The Prime Minister had trouble with words - again - and the Treasurer, having set off a distraction over access to superannuation, was then tied up in the courts for the rest of the week.

And all the while, Malcolm Turnbull was giving sage advice from the sidelines and raising money for marginal members in Queensland.

MALCOLM TURNBULL, COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER: It's wonderful to be here at the Brisbane Club.

TONY ABBOTT, PRIME MINISTER: Wow, this is nice, isn't it, eh?

MALCOLM TURNBULL: The Intergenerational Report released by Joe Hockey last week provides a solid platform from with to reboot the budget debate.

TONY JONES, JOURNALIST: Alright. Let's go to your radical plan that allows or would allow young people to access their superannuation to buy a house.

TONY ABBOTT: It's a perfectly good and respectable idea.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: My own view is that it would be a thoroughly bad idea.

JOE HOCKEY, TREASURER: Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

TONY ABBOTT: It's something that I'm very happy to see further debated.

JOE HOCKEY: We wanted a debate about this.

TONY JONES: Did you want a debate in your own cabinet?

MALCOLM TURNBULL: This is a supply side problem. The problem is we are not building enough dwellings.

JOE HOCKEY: Ultimately, Malcolm Turnbull was absolutely right: the best thing you can do for the housing market is to increase supply.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: In my view, the failure to effectively make the case for budget repair was our biggest misstep.

JOE HOCKEY: Well, we've all got budgets. (Laughs)

TONY JONES: (Laughs) Well maybe you'll get to deliver the next one.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: We secure our future prosperity by telling the unadorned truth about the budget.

TONY ABBOTT: I don't pretend that everything this government has put forward is popular.

BILL SHORTEN, OPPOSITION LEADER: I don't think that's a secret.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Reform is still possible.

TONY ABBOTT: I don't pretend that.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Now let me give you two examples from my own portfolio. ... So last week, when we announced radical changes, stamp prices to rise from 70 cents to $1 and delivery times to slow down by two days on the regular service, there was broad acceptance, despite the pain involved. The problem had been explained and it seems understood.

TONY ABBOTT: Our challenge is to be a better government tomorrow than we are today.

MALCOLM TURNBULL: Responsible economic leadership demands nothing less.