House debates

Monday, 4 November 2024

Questions without Notice

Economy

2:12 pm

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

We understand that many households are under pressure. It's precisely why we gave a tax cut to every Australian taxpayer—all 13.6 million of them, not just some. But what was going to happen under their plan was that we were all going to get a tax cut but low- and middle-income earners were going to miss out, and they're still justifying their old scheme. We look forward to and we wait for their policy to claw back the tax cuts that they've called 'waste'.

In addition to that, of course, we have provided energy price relief for every single household. In addition to that, we have provided for cheaper medicines, which is something that those opposite also opposed and said would be a disaster. We've introduced 60-day dispensing, literally cutting the cost in half, and those opposite—

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