Senate debates Questions without Notice

Cost of Living


Katy Gallagher

Katy Gallagher ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service

2:54 pm

As Senator McGrath knows—because context is important here—the decline in household living standards occurred in its sharpest form in the final quarter of the former government, when inflation was at its peak. That context is important, as is the fact that, in the countries nominated by Senator McGrath, inflation peaked earlier than it did here. It rose earlier, and it peaked earlier.

Opposition senators interjecting—

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