Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) | Hansard source

As we leave 2024, Australians are now grappling with the longest household recession in Australia on record—a fact that the government doesn't want to own up to—and living standards that are unlikely to recover to where they were prior to the inflation crisis until at least 2026 or later, all while the government continues to make more spending promises. Minister, Australians are poorer under this Labor government. When will the government take responsibility and fix the crisis that has driven Australian household incomes down in our country?