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

I was quoting Michele Bullock and her appearance before the House Standing Committee on Economics. She said this:

In fact, if you look at the trend of insolvencies over time, we're not even back to where we were pre-pandemic, trend-wise.

That is just the RBA governor—just someone fact-checking the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

But I'm asked about the last month. Well, I'll tell you what we've been doing in the last month and, indeed, in the last two weeks that this parliament has sat: free TAFE legislation, opposed by those opposite because apparently they don't value it, which explains why they don't support Medicare, TAFE, public schools or public hospitals; fixing HECS indexation for a fair go for young people; the most significant aged-care reform in a generation; Future Made in Australia, with production tax credits introduced to make a difference; and protecting our children with the social media reforms. We are delivering for every generation of Australians: for older Australians, by strengthening aged care; for families, with more housing and more help to buy a home; for students, with free TAFE and HECS debt relief for students; and for our children, by protecting them from the harms of social media. That's what we've done in just this fortnight.

What did those opposite do? They support privatising the NBN and won't support it staying in public hands; they want to increase migration and won't support the sensible measures put forward; they want to stop free TAFE; they want to protect dodgy private education providers, when they're not going to fundraisers for them; and they want to prevent Australians buying homes. Compare the pair, because next year that's what Australians will have the opportunity to do—an optimistic government, working for Australians to make life easier, or those opposite, working every day to make things harder because they think that advantages them. (Time expired.)

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