Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Australians are in a cost-of-living crisis where they're noticing that their money simply is not going as far as it once did, due to record-high interest rates, sticky homegrown inflation, declining real household incomes and rising bills. Can the minister confirm that, under the Albanese Labor government, the employee cost-of-living index, as reported by the ABS, has shown an increase of 18.9 per cent in the cost-of-living expenses households are facing?