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

I thank the member for his question. We did promise and we are delivering on making a difference to people. We are making a difference with the cheaper medicines policy that we brought in on 1 January. We are making an enormous difference, contrasting with the person who asked the question, who, when he was health minister, wanted to jack up the price of essential medicines by $5 per script. There's a contrast. Cheaper child care starts from 1 July. When the legislation was carried, the shadow finance minister said this: 'It's certainly not the policy that we would have introduced.' Never a truer word was said! On 1 July we're extending paid parental leave to six months. The Leader of the Opposition was a senior minister in the former government, which repeatedly tried to cut government funded paid parental leave for tens of thousands of families.

We said we'd get wages moving again. But those opposite voted against the secure jobs, better pay legislation. When we said that the minimum wage should be increased by just $1 an hour, they said it would wreck the economy and it was reckless. We talked about the Energy Price Relief Plan. In the question, which, of course, is complete—

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