Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is often called the chief wrecker of the Australian economy, and I think that is unfair. He's the co-chief wrecker, because he joins with Dr Jim Chalmers in wrecking the Australian economy.

Let's be clear about this. If Australians go to a poll later this year, as is speculated, it's because Anthony Albanese wants to pull the wool over the eyes of hardworking Australian families who have experienced probably one of the worst cost-of-living crises that many of them can remember. Mr Albanese says he wants to go for the full term, to May 2025. That's not true. Mr Anthony Albanese and Dr Chalmers know that, if he waits for an election in May next year, the financial burden that Australian families are forced to endure will go for another six months. The Prime Minister can't afford to have Australian families weighted down, burdened, by a cost-of-living crisis that goes to May 2025, because he knows that Australians will reject him, reject Dr Chalmers and vote down Labor's economic plan and economic performance. The most important dates in the next six months are 31 July, 6 August and possibly 7 December.

Question agreed to.