Senate debates
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Questions without Notice
Economy
2:39 pm
Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source
The Reserve Bank said 'some of the increase in inflation reflects greater capacity pressures'. This is a clear shot at your government's failure to address the productivity crisis. Industrial relations laws, failure to reform tax or reduce red tape, high-cost green policies that you said would be cheap but are not, runaway spending on the $52 billion—and climbing—NDIS. When will the government take action to reduce the percentage of government spending across our economy that is now at a 40-year high? (Time expired)
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