Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Australian families are struggling through significant and worsening cost-of-living pressures. Australians are feeling the pinch at the gas pump, at the checkout and in their mailbox when monthly power bills and mortgage repayment notices arrive. The price of everything is going up, and this Labor government continues to make a bad situation worse.

The Prime Minister misled the Australian people at the last election. The Prime Minister promised 97 times before the last election that families and businesses would see a $275 cut to their power bills. But the government's own budget said that electricity prices will rise by 56 per cent and gas prices will rise by 44 per cent. At Labor's campaign launch in Perth, the Prime Minister promised that he would deliver cheaper mortgages, but, today, the typical mortgage costs $1,140 more a month than it did in May. Many Australians voted for Labor on the basis of these promises, and they are owed an apology for these very promises being so brazenly broken. Labor is now ramming radical industrial relations laws through this parliament, and the Minister for Small Business has confirmed that, of the millions of small businesses right across Australia, not a single one supports Labor's extreme agenda. This is a Prime Minister incapable of dealing with the significant challenges facing Australia— (Time expired)

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