Jessica Collins (NSW, Liberal Party) | Hansard source

I refuse to give up on Australia. And I refuse to abandon the Australian people to the Labor Party and their obsession with taxes and desire for control. Your family deserves better than what this socialist Labor government is selling. Let me be clear, and this is a really important point, never before in Australian history has a government presided over such a significant decline in living standards—never before. And Australians are becoming poorer. You feel it; you're becoming poorer. Australians have been in a per capita recession for 10 of the last 15 quarters—10 out of 15. Never before have we seen such a sustained decline. That is the legacy of this Albanese government.

In contrast, the coalition oversaw the highest increases in living standards across the last half a century. Records show that when Liberals and Nationals are in government, families and households thrive, the economy grows and living standards rise. That was not a fluke. That was not by chance. That's because a Liberal government gets it right when it needs to and then gets out of the way. When that happens, the greatest nation does what Australians do best and the greatest things happen. That's what happens when the Australian people put their trust in the Liberal Party.

Economic management goes to the core of our being. That is the standard that Menzies set, which continues to this day—lower taxes, smaller government, more freedom. I refuse to go quietly against the poorly managed decline we have seen from Labor for four long years now. I refuse to let them say that this is as good as it gets. Australia's best days are ahead and no other party has a better history of delivering the best for Australians than the coalition.