On what he can tell voters, Anthony Albanese does a lot of asking for a cookie for things not being as bad as they could be.

Which is a valid argument. But voters don’t tend to give cookies for things not being as bad as they might have been. Voters deal with the reality in front of them, which has been tough.

Albanese:

Obviously, global inflation has had an impact right around the world, but in other comparable countries, you’ve seen double digit inflation. You didn’t get to that here, you’ve seen double digit unemployment as well our neighbors just across the ditch in New Zealand in a deep recession, and we haven’t had that here.

The government has been responsible in the way that we’ve managed the economy. We accept that people are doing it tough. That’s why we work together with people on achieving the outcome, which has seen inflation decrease to almost a third of what it was at 2.4% and now the Reserve Bank has been in a position to make this decision today, to see interest rates falling, and when you’ve got a situation where inflation is falling, employment remains strong, wages are growing, and now interest rates are falling, as well as tax cuts being delivered, then those are economic figures that are better than just about anywhere else in the world, we have had the fastest employment growth, faster than any of the g7 countries, the seven largest economies, and indeed, our average unemployment rate has been lower than any government in the last 50 years.

Now that is something that any Labor Prime Minister would be proud of, because keeping people in jobs is absolutely central to the standard of living.