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

Higher petrol bases are now compounding the pain for families who are already suffering under Labor's homegrown cost-of-living crisis, with higher mortgages, higher electricity bills and higher grocery bills—a cost-of-living crisis that existed long before the conflict in Iran. Minister, why has your government spent three years increasing government expenditure, fuelling inflation, weakening household budgets and leaving Australians exposed to exactly this kind of shock?