Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Australians deserve a government that is focused on what makes a difference to their lives, like the cost of living, and that's what we have spent 2025 doing. That's what we have done. That's what we'd been focused on prior to the election, and we have continued to deliver since the election.

Meanwhile, those opposite have opposed almost every cost-of-living measure this government has put forward. The only thing they have managed to promise in these last 12 months is higher taxes.

Of course, they could not even negotiate on these important environmental reforms, because that would have required them to take time out from their favourite pastime of fighting amongst themselves. It wasn't even clear who would be their lead negotiator. We couldn't wait for months for another Liberal Party review so they could come up with a position with which some of them might agree. There is no coalition to negotiate with—a coalition in name only.