Aaron Violi (Casey, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We've seen Labor this week focus on cheap political stunts and scoring political points when they should be focused on the Australian people and the economic and national security challenges they face. As a coalition, we're focused on restoring Australians' standard of living and protecting their way of life, because Australians know and many in my community know that it is tough economically. I could spend hours sharing stories, but I just want to share one story about how tough it is for the community today. Pat from Coldstream wrote to me about how she had to cancel her car insurance to afford rent and then ended up moving, for reduced rental cost, to a house with no air conditioning—at a time when we've seen 35- to 40-degree days in Victoria. But what do we have? We have a treasurer and his mentor, the former treasurer Wayne Swan, telling us how great the economy is and that we've never had it better. We have a treasurer who has no answers to the economic challenges the Australian people face. For four years, he has failed to treat the symptoms of the challenges that we face. He has not treated the symptoms. He has not treated the causes. He has made the situation worse. We have been abandoned by this treasurer. Watch him in question time; he will go personal. He will attack the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Treasurer because he has no answers to the economic challenges that the Australian people face today.

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