Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s claim he has only spent four hours in Alice Springs, instead asserting that he has visited Alice Springs more times than the three previous Liberal prime ministers combined.

Dutton claims Alice Springs was seeing little difference from the government’s $250 million Central Australia package.

“In fact, the situation has got much worse. Children are committing serious crimes, sexual abuse is at a record high, juvenile crime and domestic crime and abuse is at a record high. When does the prime minister intend to visit Alice Springs?” Dutton asks.

Albanese begins his answer, saying he has visited more than the three previous Liberal prime ministers combined, before Dutton interjects saying the prime minister is not being relevant.

“I know the prime minister has a glass jaw,” Dutton begins before being cut off, as Speaker Milton Dick says Dutton is not following the standing orders.

“I took the entire cabinet to the Northern Territory and we had ministers in Alice Springs, in Katherine, in remote Northern Territory as well, and I visited a remote community to commit $4 billion to fix housing in remote communities. Something that was never done by those opposite when they were in government,” Albanese says.