Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I was talking about energy prices, of course. The point that I am making is that when Kim and the other small business owners of this country, when the families and pensioners of this country, needed the Liberal and National parties to support the government in providing them a bit of assistance with their higher energy bills those opposite left them hanging. Those opposite completely abandoned the small businesses, the families and the pensioners of this country. When the parliament had the opportunity—

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