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

We've got electricity bill relief, cheaper child care, increased rent assistance, more Medicare bulk-billing, cheaper medicines. We're boosting income support payments, building more affordable homes, extending paid parental leave and fee-free TAFE, and we're getting wages moving again after a decade of deliberate wage stagnation.

Those opposite oppose our plan because they want lower wages and higher prices. They're long on nasty negativity, but they're short on anything positive to say about the future. Australians have already paid too hefty a price for their failures on the economy. When Australians are doing it tough, we are providing cost-of-living help, we are skilling Australians up for great jobs, we are getting wages moving again, we are getting the budget in much better nick and, in the process, we are cleaning up the mess that those opposite left behind.

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