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

Perhaps that will be in their announcement tonight. Apparently they're going to do multiples. That's what we've just had—a pre-emptive strike from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, saying that they'll do multiples of our power bill announcement in tonight's budget reply. Well, we await that. Perhaps they can move those as amendments. When they had the chance to support Australian families and to vote for power bill relief, they voted against it for families. They voted against it for families and they voted against it for small business, like they vote against everything. The problem with this opposition is that they take the word 'opposition' literally. They just say no to everything. They have no plans for the future and nothing positive to say about what is needed. They've had two budget replies without having any substantive policy whatsoever. The Leader of the Opposition can't find the National Press Club to give a serious speech about the alternative policy of the alternative government. So we await tonight the view—

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