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

What I can say is that those on this side and all of the members of the Albanese government—from the Prime Minister through to the cabinet and ministry and the whole of the caucus—understand how hard things are for so many Australians. We understand how many families and pensioners are doing it tough, and so our first priority has been to work out how we can deliver cost-of-living relief in a responsible way. That is why you have seen the range of responsible measures that this government has put in place, including the tax cuts which are flowing through to workers from 1 July.

I would take the point that the opposition is making and note this: the opposition is very good at talking about what needs to happen. They're very good at telling people that we actually need to spend less, but do you know what they're not prepared to do? They're not prepared to tell us what they'd cut.