House debates
Monday, 16 October 2023
Questions without Notice
Cost of Living
2:45 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The IMF was what the question was about, but I'm happy as well to talk about what we've done on cost of living because all of it has something in common. It was targeted and effective, and it's being rolled out. Our cost-of-living measures include cheaper child care, which began on 1 July; cheaper medicines, the first component of which began on 1 January; the 60-day dispensing, which was opposed by those opposite; our energy price relief plans—$3 billion—which they voted against; and affordable and social housing, which they voted against. They voted against the idea of housing supply. There is also all of the strengthening of the social safety net that we've put in place—
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