James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

For those listening at home, I'll read out the matter before the Senate: 'The Labor government's reckless and irresponsible economic management has resulted in the longest ever household recession since the 1970s, with Australian household incomes dropping as those in comparable nations have grown.' If you're scared about what's going on at the moment, you should be, because we have a Labor government who, quite frankly, have just switched off. We have a Prime Minister who has bought his retirement home. If you listened to question time, you would think that Queen Marie Antoinette had come back to life and replicated herself, and that replicas of her were sitting around the cabinet table. That's because every single minister echoes the sentiments of that long-dead Queen by saying, 'Let them eat cake,' because Australians have never had it so good as they have it under the Labor Party and Prime Minister Albanese. You have these cabinet ministers of the rank of Marie Antoinette saying, 'Let them eat cake with icing and cherries on top, because we've done it so good for them, us here in Canberra.'

If you think Canberra is a bubble, well, that's an understatement. There is no such think as a Canberra bubble; it's 'Canberraworld'. It's not a rubbish theme park or a bad TV series; it is a really gruesome reality show that is on your news every night, and you're paying for it through your taxes. You're paying for it because your quality of life has gone backwards since the Labor Party came to power. But the Labor Party think you've never had it so good and you should be grateful because you're paying more in tax, because there have been 12 interest rate rises, because your rent has gone up, insurance has gone up and power has gone up. This is a Labor Party that promised 97 times before the last election it would cut power bills by $275. We have a Labor government in Canberraworld that is not just out of touch but off this planet when it comes to understanding how tough Australians are doing it.

But it could be a lot worse, because we know the Labor Party only ever win elections because they do a preference deal with the racist, antisemitic Greens party. We just have to look at the policies of that racist, antisemitic party to see what Australia could be facing following the next election.