Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

Wow! Mr Deputy Speaker, have you ever known a government more full of itself than this Albanese one? Labor love to talk. They love the big talk and to talk about how great they are. I'm sure they've have all given themselves a slap on the back. 'What a great 10 months it's been under Labor,' they say. But Australians know it hasn't been a great 10 months. It hasn't even been an average 10 months, Mr Deputy Speaker. It's actually been a train wreck. We've now seen nine interest rate increases in a row. We've watched electricity and gas prices skyrocket. We've watched Australians across our great nation struggle to keep a roof over their head and to feed their families. It has been 10 months of watching Labor and their union mates ruin the economy.

I know I've got only five minutes to speak, but there is so much misinformation in this motion that I have to laugh. Let's start with the claim that they handed down a budget that 'delivered cost-of-living relief'. That is clearly misleading this chamber, because that is one big, fat Labor lie, if I've ever heard one from those opposite. What cost-of-living relief? You've delivered nothing for Australian families but more and more hardship. Families are struggling. They're trying to decide if they heat or if they eat. Small businesses are struggling to stay afloat. Claims from this government that they're delivering cost-of-living relief are just false.

While we're talking about misleading this chamber, can the member for Hawke tell families in his electorate that their electricity prices will come down by $275? Can Labor promise families that their energy prices will come down? Oh wait, they did that—97 times. Yet, here we are, 10 months later and nothing—no plans to make your electricity prices cheaper. It's another Labor lie and another broken promise from the Albanese government.

They've got a few of those broken promises. They promised cheaper mortgages, no changes to super and lower inflation. There's silence from the other side; they know it is all true. They promised no changes to franking credits, no changes to industry-wide bargaining, no increase to taxes, increases to real wages—the list goes on. It's more Labor lies and broken promises.

Then they promised cheaper child care. I don't know if the member for Hawke reads the news, but the cost of early learning has already increased on your watch. The latest CPI data—

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