Andrew Bragg (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

This matter of public importance highlights the great problem that the Australian people have. That problem is that they have a government that is uninterested in their own economic challenges and has been callous and cruel by declaring victory in the war on inflation and by declaring that the government has undertaken tax reform. We have got a country with a very sick economy. We have inflation rising above the band. You have got a budget with its backside out of its pants. You have got very flat capex and rising unemployment. We hear the government literally reading out their speeches that have been prepared for them by other people. I note that very few of the speeches from the government benches are genuine speeches; they're usually just read speeches. Apparently, down at Labor headquarters they're giving dictation. In the dictation that they receive—