Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today is an important anniversary. No, I'm not talking about the day that $100 notes were introduced to Australia for the first time, 52 years ago, or about the day, 20 years ago, when Australia took home more medals than any other nation from the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. No, this is a day that will live on in infamy. This is the day, one year ago, when the opposition opposed Labor's tax cuts and cost-of-living relief for millions of Australians. It is the day on which the opposition looked squarely in the eye of every struggling family in Australia and promised to pull the rug out from underneath them.

A year on, they continue to squabble amongst themselves and indulge in stunt politics. Today's debacle, where they called on the government to rush through legislation to increase ACCC penalties for price gouging, then voted against it, makes the point.

Meanwhile, the Albanese government has delivered. We've increased bulk-billing, rolled out urgent care clinics, made medicines cheaper, cut student debt and introduced prac payments, rolled out 600,000 fee-free TAFE places and a $10,000 apprenticeship bonus, and helped first home buyers with a five per cent deposit scheme. Now we're backing a pay rise for millions of workers. May 26 March be forever remembered as the day on which the opposition showed their true colours and sided against struggling Australian families.