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

As the minister said a moment ago, when the workers of middle Australia needed us to get wages moving again, those opposite voted for even more wage stagnation in our economy. The other day, the shadow minister even said that they would block an increase to working-age income support payments until the opposition leader humiliated him a few hours later.

My point is this: at every turn, they vote to make things worse. They've got a lot of nerve. If they cared about the cost of living, they would vote to help people with their cost of living. This opposition leader wants the Voice to go down and prices to go up, and for the same cynical political negative reasons. He's more interested in driving a wedge between Australians than driving down inflation in our economy.

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