Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

The three major parties of the right in this country have one thing in common: they're very happy to trade in anger but very unhappy to actually come up with answers. They are all about slogans, but they have no solutions to Australia's problems.

If you want to think about how Australia is facing the crisis in the Middle East today, just think about how we would have been placed if the coalition had remained in office. Under them, when fuel prices exceeded $2 a litre, at the beginning of the Ukraine war, what was the biggest penalty that the ACCC could impose? It was a $10 million penalty. We increased penalties to $50 million in 2022—

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