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

 The progress we've made on the budget—not pretending that the work is done, but we have made progress, with a couple of surpluses, a much smaller deficit this year, less debt than what we inherited for this year, saving on interest costs and all of the other progress that Australians have made together—has meant we've been able to find room to help people with the cost of living, make their medicines cheaper, cut their taxes three times and all of the other ways we are helping Australians with the cost of living. The shadow treasurer was asked on 14 July on 2GB what the main feedback was from the election, and he said he had been getting lots of feedback. He said his feedback was that people liked their policies. Well, that's news to me! Their policy was for higher taxes and bigger deficits. We have taken a different approach, and we're making progress— (Time expired)

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