Andrew Willcox (Dawson, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise today to continue the fight for everyday Australians in Dawson—those who get up each morning, send their children to school and work hard to feed their families. However, those Australians are struggling with a Labor-created cost-of-living crisis. For over 18 months we've seen fuel prices increase, energy prices increase and interest rates rise, and I could go on for hours about how much it costs for groceries and fruit and vegetables at Coles and Woolworths, while these big guys are paying our farmers less. This is not good enough.

It took 100 days for those opposite to appoint an independent reviewer of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, and it was only by being dragged kicking and screaming to the press gallery by the National Party that the Prime Minister finally instructed the ACCC to conduct an inquiry into Australia's supermarket sector. The families in Dawson, the farmers in Dawson and all of those struggling around Australia will have to wait 365-plus days for this incompetent Albanese Labor government to just do its job. We in this country deserve a more urgent response to the ACCC inquiry, and we want it.