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

Thanks to the member for Macquarie for her championing the cause of 67,000 people in her local community who got a tax cut this week because of this Prime Minister and this Labor government. It shows how focused we have been in the course of the last week in rolling out substantial, meaningful and responsible cost-of-living relief to ease the pressures that we know people are under.

It has been an important week when it comes to the economy. On Friday, we learned that we're on track to deliver the second surplus in two years—the first back-to-back surpluses in more than two decades. By Monday we were rolling out cost-of-living relief in at least five different ways, and yesterday we introduced the legislation for a future made in Australia. That's because our responsible economic management is all about relief, it is about repair and it is about reform: relief when it comes to cost-of-living pressures, repair of the budget mess that we inherited from those opposite and reform of our economy to modernise and maximise the opportunities coming at us in a world of global net zero transformation.

The last week laid bare, I think, the choice between us and them. There's cost-of-living relief from Labor, opposed by those opposite; renewables from Labor, reactors from those opposite; a future made in Australia or another decade of delay and denial; responsible economic management—

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