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

It's also why it's so important, as the Prime Minister said a moment ago, that we have turned two big Liberal deficits into two Labor surpluses. As the Governor of the Reserve Bank has said, that is helping in the fight against inflation.

You can't ease cost-of-living pressures with nuclear reactors or the sort of nasty negativity we hear from those opposite. You do it with tax cuts, you do it with energy bill relief and with decent wages and you do it with cheaper medicines as well, and those things are precisely what Australians can expect from Monday next week.

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