David Coleman (Banks, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Australians are being smashed by the Albanese government's cost-of-living crisis every single day. Just this week, media reports have revealed the massive price hikes that six million Australian families have been hit with on the NBN. Since October, internet prices have gone up by 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 per cent, and that's just in eight months. Who said in October last year that this was great news for consumers?

Kevin Hogan (Page, National Party, Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I don't know. Who said that?

David Coleman (Banks, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Well, it was the Minister for Communications. Australians are paying an extra $120 for their internet access, and the minister said, 'This is great news for consumers.' The problem is that everything is up under this government—electricity, gas, rent, food, health, education, everything. It's all going up. Now, the Albanese government is welcoming a $120 a year increase in the cost of internet access. The question is: how are families supposed to find that extra $120? Where is the money supposed to come from? People haven't got an extra $120 in the middle of this cost-of-living crisis, and this is yet another example of the shocking impact of the Albanese government's homegrown inflation.