Cameron Caldwell (Fadden, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Housing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The legacy that's being left by this Labor government is that the economy is weak, fuel supplies aren't guaranteed and Australians out there are hurting. The cost of living at the moment is getting hard to ignore. Day-to-day life just feels more expensive across the board. Groceries, fuel, insurance, housing—everything keeps creeping up, and it's not occasional any more; it's constant. It feels like you're always adjusting to just stay in the same place.

Those are not my words; they're the words of Madeleine, from Oxenford in my electorate. She's feeling the pain every single day, and the reason she's feeling the pain is, right now, if you go to the fuel pumps you'll pay nearly $3 a litre for diesel. There are local businesses that I know are contemplating putting a levy on their transport. Prices will continue to rise, inflation is already raging out of control and the Reserve Bank has just had to act by putting interest rates up to 4.1 per cent.

Australians out there are hurting. Everything is getting more expensive under the Albanese Labor government, and they don't seem to have a plan or a willingness to fix it. So what's left for the Australian people to do? The only thing they can do—that is, bring back a coalition government on that side of this House who will restore Australian standards of living.