Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Before the 2022 election, the Prime Minister was tweeting photographs of petrol prices at $1.79, $1.85 and $1.91 a litre, demanding action from the coalition. Today, Australians filling up at Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane—and including Darwin—are paying closer to $2.20 per litre. Minister, if $1.79 per litre for petrol was a national outrage when Labor was in opposition, why is $2.20 per litre apparently acceptable now that Labor is in government?