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

What the Prime Minister believes is that the government should ensure that wages are moving again, and, after a decade under you, they are. What the Prime Minister is focused on is delivering the tax cuts which delivered a tax cut to every Australian. What the Prime Minister and his colleagues have been focused on is how we lower the cost of child care. What our government has been focused on is the ways in which we can assist Australians with the rising cost of living.

The difference between those of us on this side and those of us on that side is twofold. First, you opposed so many of the measures which have delivered and are delivering some contribution to cost-of-living pressures for Australians—for example, energy. But, on top of that, you have your senior financial spokespeople talking about the $300 billion-plus 'Labor spending', as they call it— (Time expired)