My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting Australian families feeling under pressure, including through emergency and food relief?

I want to thank the member for Calwell. He is a terrific supporter of the great organisations in his electorate who provide emergency relief like El Rahman, and I know that he is very committed to seeing food relief in particular provided to his constituents. Under Labor, the minimum wage is up more than $12,000 a year. Pensions are up more than $6½ thousand a year. JobSeeker is up more than $4,700 a year, and rent assistance is up by around $2,000 a year, an increase of over 50 per cent since we came to government.

We know that some Australians need extra support. No family should be faced with a choice of putting food on the table or paying the bills, and that's why we've also delivered record funding for emergency relief and financial wellbeing.

But people go to the supermarket, pay more and get less.

The shadow treasurer's interjecting. When he was in government, they cut $20 million a year from food relief. We have just announced an extra—

Order, Member for Goldstein! The minister won't take interjections and will return to the question.

$4.7 million, just a couple of weeks ago, for frontline services like OzHarvest, like Foodbank, like Good360 and like Secondbite to make sure that they can help those who reach out, particularly as the holiday season approaches and as the dangerous weather season approaches—so $2 million extra for food relief—a 15 per cent funding boost for 70 emergency relief providers, particularly in regional and remote communities, because we know that the impact of high fuel costs is having a particular impact in regional and remote communities; and an additional $1.1 million to boost the National Debt Helpline. These are organisations that help Australians at some of the toughest moments of their lives. As UnitingCare said about this most recent funding boost, 'this funding means a single parent can put food on the table, a worker can access a fuel voucher to get to work, and a family in crisis can speak with a financial counsellor so they can keep a roof over their heads'. We will make sure that we keep providing practical local support where people need it most, including in remote First Nations communities as well, where my colleague the Minister for Indigenous Australians, through the Low-cost Essentials Subsidy Scheme, has made sure that 30 essential items, like milk, rice, tinned vegetables, canned fruit, toilet paper and nappies are more affordably available in all 225 remote stores around Australia where that program is now able to be accessed.