Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, it's no wonder they are cutting back on even just a basic night out at Macca's or at KFC. The reports that are coming in now from across Australia show just how tough Australians are doing it.

This is a government that hasn't just broken those promises. They promised that the stage 3 tax cuts would be delivered in full. But, no, they junked that for a temporary bandaid measure. That's what this government has done with everything: temporary bandaid measures just to get them through the next election.

The questions that today is igniting are: Just how soon will that election be? How scared is Mr Albanese that things are going from bad to worse? How worried is Mr Albanese that Australians feeling the pain are going to give his government the boot? How concerned is Mr Albanese that Australian households are going to keep feeling that pressure mounting and mounting and mounting? So here we are with a government clearing the decks, a government rushing through and guillotining legislation sight unseen, a government clearly panicked and letting Australians down.