George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. Is the minister aware that, since the Labor government was elected four years ago today, electricity prices have risen by 60 per cent, gas prices have risen by 36 per cent, water and sewerage rates have risen by 58 per cent, education costs have risen by 24 per cent, the cost of fruit and vegetables has increased by 33 per cent and the overall cost of food and groceries has increased by 15 per cent? Will the minister now concede that his government has comprehensively failed to take the cost-of-living pressures off Australia's working families?