Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Moncrieff for her question, and I hope that the member for Moncrieff tells Doug why she voted against energy price relief, why she voted against one of the five million families that will get relief on their power bills, the one million small businesses that will get relief on their power bills, and the 111,000 households that will pay less to make their houses more energy efficient and lower their energy bills. They're just some of the measures that we've put in place. More than 1.2 million families will pay less for child care from 1 July, and 11 million Australians will pay less to see a doctor as a result of our tripling of the bulk-billing incentive.

In the first four months of this year, Australians paid $76 million less for their prescriptions because of our cheaper medicines plan. And because of our budget, another six million Australians will pay less for their medicines, a measure that those opposite are once again saying no to. Four hundred and eighty thousand Australians will pay absolutely nothing for TAFE in dealing with the skills crisis; 3.7 million small businesses will be able to access an expanded instant asset—

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