Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

With comparative credit rating, as other nations around the world soften, by default, Australia ends up with a AAA credit rating. It is unprecedented, unthinkable, that this government would blow their own horn to say that they are managing the economy when they are producing record deficits. I will make the point that they are structural deficits.

In closing, I would also make this point: electricity prices under this government are up 66 per cent since Labor was elected, gas prices are up 39 per cent, food prices are up 11 per cent, petrol prices are up 11 per cent, education and health costs are up 25 per cent. My message to the government is: get your hands out of the pockets of mums and dads; get your hands out of the pockets of businesses and let them flourish. (Time expired)

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