Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting for Fisheries and Forestry) | Hansard source

It's true to say that today's an important day. It's a day when our nation turns an important page. I do, just as an aside, have to query why those opposite would spend the majority of their contributions obsessing over the Liberal Party on such an important day—on a day when they could be talking about what those opposite are actually achieving. But it is the first day of a new financial year. Predictably, the Prime Minister and his treasurer have been out spruiking their tax cuts—a paltry $5 a week. Those opposite don't spend their time talking about this because they know that it is insignificant and it has been monstered by inflation. It's evaporated before it's even turned up.

I've got to say that, during question time, I do sometimes turn off as the Prime Minister is preening his feathers, giving us the 'never had it better' speech, luxuriating in his hubris. Those opposite would do well to look up at the galleries during question time, because the people in the galleries get it—they know that grocery prices have gone up, they know fuels have gone up, they know rent's gone up. Do you know what else they know, Madam Deputy Speaker Claydon? They know who to blame for it. It is the unbridled spending of those opposite that is putting pressure on Australians via inflation, because those opposite don't have a plan for it. Do you know how I know those in the galleries know this?

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