Senate debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Questions without Notice

Cost of Living

2:30 pm

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

The biggest risk to household budgets, the national budget, the broader economy and Australia's cost-of-living relief is Mr Peter Dutton. Whether it's cheaper power bills, cheaper medicines, Medicare urgent care clinics, cheaper child care, HECS debt help or tax cuts for every taxpayer, Mr Dutton has opposed them all.

What does he support? He supports tax breaks for bosses' lunches. He's opposed to cheaper medicines and Medicare urgent care clinics, he's opposed to cheaper child care, he's opposed to HECS debt help and he's opposed to tax cuts for every taxpayer, but he supports tax breaks for long lunches. This is a plan that could cost the budget up to $10 billion a year, as Treasury costings have revealed.

Mr Dutton is also in favour of cuts, though to what services he won't say. Australians will be worse off under Mr Dutton. (Time expired)

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