Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the last election we were told that Australians would be better off under a Labor government. We've been sold a pup, and I ask the Australian public: how are you better off? When I speak to my manufacturers, my farmers, my businesses and my families in the electorate of Wright, they openly share with me the pain that they are enduring, and they're the ones who are still there, because the statistical evidence supports a figure of 27,000 insolvencies having happened since this government came to office. Shame! That is a far cry from the government's position that Australians would be better off.

My manufacturers are doing it tough because of their input costs. They're doing it tough because of the electricity costs that continue to skyrocket. All the while, before the election, we were being told on many, many occasions that electricity prices would come down by $275. Our farmers are doing it tough, and they're going to be asked to do more in the way of reporting their carbon emissions. Businesses that are still there are worried about what a future under this government will look like. Australians deserve better. Australians deserve a Dutton led government.