Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Matters of Public Importance
Cost of Living
4:15 pm
Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source
A letter has been received from Senator McGrath:
Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:
With the average family with a mortgage paying $1,500 a month more, paying 20 per cent more on energy bills, record high petrol prices and their real wages going backwards, Australians are facing a full-blown cost of living crisis and a litany of Albanese Labor Government broken promises.
Is the proposal supported?
More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—
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