Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My phone was ringing hot in the morning, with constituents in the electorate of Wright letting me know their disappointment with the trail of broken promises from Labor as a result of the budget last night. I said, 'Where are the broken promises?' They said: 'We were promised $275 to reduce our electricity some time back, and that never happened. We were told that electricity prices were going to go down, and they've actually increased 43 per cent, and we were told that, if Labor spent $43 billion on housing, it would supercharge the economy and more houses would be built and that it would be easier for young Australians to get access to the market.' The reality is, when we left government, we were building 220,000 homes a year. Under these guys, it's 40,000 fewer. Recent data from Housing Industry Australia had 183,000 homes built in the reporting period last year—broken promise after broken promise after broken promise. Of course, we remember the clanger. What was that one? The 'my word is my bond' on the stage 3 tax cuts where we got a 2.2 per cent reduction. It's broken promises time and time again. You just can't trust Labor. We've got the highest spending Labor government for 40 years, outside the pandemic. Interestingly, we don't have a taxing problem. These guys have got a spending problem.