Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday in question time, in a question from Senator Pocock regarding people like his constituents Sam and Leilani, who were in the gallery, having to choose between housing or heating because of the extreme cost-of-living pressures that they and millions of Australians are now facing, Minister Farrell was asked, what does he say to them? Minister Farrell responded: 'Well, I say to them: welcome to the Senate. If they'd like to identify themselves, I will give them a little wave.' Is 'a little wave' all the Labor Albanese government has to offer two Australians who are struggling with the cost of living?