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

Well, it's about time: two weeks and one day since the budget was handed down and the shadow Treasurer has now asked his second question about something to do with the budget. I welcome the question. I welcome his interest, even if it's belated and typically incompetent and misunderstood. Of all the people in this place who are qualified to ask questions about the cost of living, the shadow Treasurer would be in about 150th place or 151st place, or wherever we're up to now, because he is more responsible than anyone else in this place for the fact that energy prices are going up. There are two people in the world most responsible for what we're seeing in energy prices. One of them sits in the Kremlin, and the other one sits over there. What we saw from—

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