Leon Rebello (McPherson, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

They weren't thinking about it; they took a weekend off! And now they've come back and said, 'Yes, we're going to agree with the coalition and we're going to do this.' We will take it. That is great. It is good for the Australian people, because they're hurting from this fuel crisis. But it's not just the fuel crisis. It's the fuel crisis on top of everything else. It's on top of all the pressures that have been piled on, one after the other. That's not to mention the 14 interest rate rises, not to mention their mortgages going up and not to mention the costs of groceries, electricity, fuel and everything; insurance is a massive one. This is on top of all of that.

Despite the fact that one government minister referred to our idea of cutting the fuel excise as a 'thought bubble', they've now adopted it, and we applaud them on doing that, although every day they didn't do it it cost Australians $16 million in extra fuel costs.

Coming to the table is not leadership, so to the member for Moreton, who spoke before, I say that, instead of coming in here and lecturing us on leadership, you should actually look at yourselves—

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