House debates

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Questions without Notice

Cost of Living

3:05 pm

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

In the December quarter last year, they were $76. Gas prices were $31.76 in May 2022. In the December quarter of 2023, that was down to $11.60.

Of course, we will get to two years with the same Prime Minister. After they were elected, Tony Abbott didn't make it to two years. They brought in the 2014 budget. That ripped the guts out of education and health, led by the bloke who's now the Leader of the Opposition, with $50 billion of cuts in health, with a GP tax on every time someone would go and visit a doctor and with a tax every time someone would visit an emergency department.

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