Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I was very honoured to be elected to this place in May 2022 as the member for Spence. I ran on a campaign motto of Your Community Voice, standing up for the hard-working men and women of my electorate. When we came into government, things were pretty tough. Inflation was at 6.1 per cent. Wage growth was next to non-existent. We had a lot of cleaning up to do. What did we do? We stood up and delivered for working-class Australians. We got to work, as good Labor governments do.

We implemented our responsible economic plan, a plan that is working. Inflation is now almost half what it was when we came into government. We delivered targeted energy relief to households by way of our $300 relief on bills. We put a freeze on the PBS medicines. We made the really hard decision to put more money in people's back pockets, including more than 67,000 people in my electorate of Spence, through our bigger, better, fairer tax cuts.

At the end of the day, the Albanese Labor government wants to make sure that you earn more and keep more of what you earn. Those opposite want you to work longer for less.

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