Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

President, it continues to amaze me that every time we talk about delivering cost-of-living relief we get laughed at from the other side. I mean, it might be a laughing issue on the North Shore of Sydney, somewhere that Senator Sharma knew very well until recently, but it's a very real issue that Australians are dealing with, and that's why we're doing everything we can to help. But, unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to all the cost-of-living relief that we're providing to Australians is the Liberal Party and its leader.

As I say, over the last few weeks I've called on the supermarket chains to cut their meat prices, and I'm pleased to see that is starting to happen.

I will give credit where it is due. We have seen the Greens political party, Senator Lambie and even the Nationals joining us in putting pressure on the big supermarkets but we have heard nothing from the Liberal Party—total silence because they are the party of no solutions. In the past four months in question time the Leader of the Opposition has asked just three questions on cost of living. That's how much he cares about it. He has asked no questions on interest rates, energy or Medicare because he doesn't care about cost-of-living relief and opposes everything we try to do.