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

He asked me about his constituents, and I'm talking about his constituents. Indeed, constituents right around Australia are under substantial financial pressure, and that's why we're helping them. That's why we're helping them with a tax cut for every taxpayer, energy bill relief, cheaper early childhood education, rent assistance, getting wages moving again and all of the ways we are helping people with the cost-of-living pressures that we're under right now. We're fighting inflation, and inflation has halved since the year that we were elected, as the Prime Minister said earlier on in question time. If those opposite, especially the honourable member, really cared about the cost-of-living pressures that our constituents are under, they would support our efforts to help with the cost of living. Instead, they oppose them.

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