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

I think there were three economic points in relation to that. The first is inflation, and I've responded to that on a number of occasions. The second is wages. We see that, unlike you, we have more people entering the workforce. We have more people who are able to keep more of what they earn because of our tax cuts. Of course, we have wages growing in a way they did not grow under you. The third point is obviously housing supply. We know that housing affordability and the difficulty with housing affordability is in great part being driven by a lack of housing supply. On all three of these domains of economic policy you see the government acting and the coalition doing what you would anticipate, which is opposing.

It is the case that many people are struggling to make ends meet. It is the case that many people are struggling when it comes to mortgages, and what— (Time expired)