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

Those of us on this side—rather than the cultural wars we've seen—are focused on cost of living. We're focused on how to help Australians with the No. 1 issue, and that is the cost of living, and how we can work to lift wages and bring down costs. That includes government initiatives like the tax cut for every taxpayer and the energy bill relief for every household that those opposite voted against. We are working to ensure that Australians do not pay more than they should, including at the check-out, by supporting the competition watchdog so it can crack down on bad behaviour, by working to improve competition through merger reform and planning, by taking action to fight shrinkflation and introducing big penalties for supermarkets which do the wrong thing and getting Choice to provide quarterly price monitoring.

The reality is that there's one side of politics which is focused on cost-of-living measures and ensuring that wages keep increasing, and that is the Australian Labor.