David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Under a government more concerned with pork-barrelling in marginal seats than investing in their long-term future, working families across this country saw their costs, whether they were child care, fuel, education, mortgage or rental costs, spiralling out of control and leading to that 16-year high in inflation. It is a massive challenge and one that we are prepared to confront.

The opposition leader says that it is a charade. Go and talk to the working families right across this country who are seeing the money in their pocket eroded, ripped away, by the scourge of inflation. Go and tell them it is a charade.

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