Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Over the weekend, I put out to my constituents issues that they'd like me to raise in this place around what the current Albanese Labor government is doing and how it's performing. Rodney from Redcliffe raised that inflation had increased again in April, when the Prime Minister said it was going down. But it's gone up again, costing everyone more in their hip pocket. Rodney asked: 'Did the Prime Minister mislead the House, or was he careless on his forecasts?' Mala from Scarborough inquired about the current homelessness issue around the country that's been rampant in the last two years and has really gone through the roof since the Albanese Labor government was elected. John from Griffin said: 'My burning question is what happens when we reach net zero, having spent millions of dollars? Will we get a return on investment?' We'll be speaking on a bill on that today.

Several constituents have raised their concerns about Minister Giles and the appalling direction 99. This guy had to gall to get up in parliament today and say that direction 99 had actually been good for Australians. The reality is that what we've seen is the Albanese Labor government has let into the community rapists and murderers—and some of those people, after having served a sentence, have gone on to commit further crimes.

The reality is that, under the Albanese Labor government, mortgages are up, rents are up, electricity is up, gas is up, food is up, homelessness is up, unemployment is due to go up, immigration and housing pressures are up, and regulation and taxes are up. The only thing that's down is manufacturing—they've lost 100,000 jobs.

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