Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Stewart for the question. As Senator Stewart said, our $23 billion cost-of-living package—large parts of which those opposite voted against—includes those important measures like energy bill relief, cheaper child care, the bulk-billing investments that are rolling through, cheaper medicines, 60-day dispensing, boosting income support payments, addressing some of the rental pressures with Commonwealth rent assistance, our fee-free TAFE, building more affordable homes, expanding paid parental leave and getting wages moving again. This is all part of our agenda to ensure that Australians can keep up with those cost-of-living pressures that we're seeing.

But we're also, importantly, focusing on measures that improve the productive side of the economy, like our investments into child care, which we see as a significant economic reform, and, indeed, our extension to PPL, allowing more women to work.