Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

that those opposite legislated to end tomorrow night. And we're being upfront with people about that. We know that's a difficult decision. We know it impacts people who drive further. But our commitment to them, all along, is to manage the budget as responsibly as we can, to provide cost-of-living relief where we can, where there's an economic dividend, in areas like child care, cheaper TAFE and cheaper medicines and getting wages moving again.

But nobody is pretending that the end of the fuel excise relief won't make things more difficult. We understand that. We appreciate that. And we're being upfront with people on the reason why that's ending on the timetable set by those opposite and we're not able to extend it.

But we are providing cost-of-living relief to the member for Fowler's constituents, and to Australians all around the country. We'll do that in an affordable and a responsible way that's right for the budget and right for the economy.

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