Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I always read the front page of the Australian, Mr Speaker, so I did read that; I read the front page of every newspaper in this country to try to keep on top of where things are. A couple weeks later, in May, the first interest rate increase by the Reserve Bank occurred—on their watch. I thought they were in government at that point in time. But what we also know is that there was scheduled to be an increase in wholesale energy prices at the same time.

But I didn't get to read about that on the front page of the Australian. I didn't get to read about it, and I wonder why that is the case because it was scheduled to occur during the campaign, just like the interest rate increase occurred during the campaign. We knew about one, but we didn't know about the other. We didn't know about the other because someone—

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