House debates Questions without Notice

Cost of Living

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 House of Representatives

Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister

2:31 pm

The member suggests, somehow, that, when the Liberals are in government, people don't pay more. But the fact is that the peak of inflation, in terms of the largest ever jump in any quarter this century, was in March 2022, and the jump was 2.1 per cent. The fact is also that the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison government was the second highest taxing government in modern Australian economic history. The highest, of course, was the Howard government.

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