Here's the offer that is on the table for everyday Australians: you put your hand out and receive the receipt for the weekly shop, and it is 31 per cent higher than it was in 2019. On the other hand, Coles and Woolies receive $2.23 billion in profit in just six months. What a dud of a deal for everyday people! The duopoly have been ripping people off for years. A trip to the shop shouldn't make you anxious. Picking up milk and bread after work shouldn't cause stress. The supermarket duopoly are simply out of control, prioritising their profits over people. But of course they will; they're corporations. It's the government's job to rein them in. Grocery prices in this country are being driven by predatory price gouging by Coles and Woolies, and people are absolutely desperate for relief.

I know that government are busy accepting donations from tech billionaires and gas companies, so we've done them a favour, and we have put forward a solution: publicly owned supermarkets. Dare to imagine essentials like milk, eggs, fruit, veg and nappies priced 30 per cent cheaper than at the major supermarkets. We can reduce anxiety. We can bring down people's stress in this terrible cost-of-living crisis that they're currently experiencing. If Labor had the guts to break up the Coles and Woolies duopoly, Australians could save in the realm of 80 bucks a week—over $4,000 a year—by shopping at a publicly owned local supermarket. Making big corporations pay their fair share of tax means that we can dare to fund meaningful solutions to the cost-of-living crisis and lift the burden off Australians' weekly shop, because you deserve access to affordable, high-quality local products more than the duopoly deserve their astronomical corporate profits.