Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): No amount of Senator Birmingham shouting will cause people to forget that this is the party that voted against electricity price relief. This is the party that wants medicines not cheaper but more expensive. This is the party that actually wants more expensive medicine. This is the party that doesn't back increasing the bulk-billing incentives. We want to make it easier and cheaper to see a doctor; they're happy for it to be more expensive and harder. On this side, we want cheaper child care and expanded paid parental leave, and we want more affordable housing. What do they want? To oppose more affordable housing. At the end of it all, the thing that really demonstrates their hypocrisy is that they have always been about low wages and they will always be about low wages, as they were today. (Time expired)

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.