Over on Perth radio 6PR, Anthony Albanese was sharpening his attack against the fuel excise cut the Coalition has announced:

The problem here with Peter Dutton is not only that is his team made up of the leftovers from the Morrison Government, they’re now adopting leftovers of the Morrison policies. That’s what they put in place in 2022 in their budget before they called the election. And of course they legislated to make sure that that decrease disappeared and this one will disappear as well. There’ll be no ongoing cost of living relief. What we’ve done is provide ongoing cost of living relief. Not just tax cuts, but cheaper medicines, cheaper child care, Free TAFE that we’ve legislated, the schools funding program that we’ve been able to deliver. The tripling of the bulk bill billing incentive for Medicare will mean not just for a year or two years, but forever. We want to lift the bulk billing rates to 90 per cent for Medicare. Urgent Care Clinics will be there forever so that people can get the health care that they need. If it’s not a life threatening emergency, they have somewhere to go rather than the emergency department. This is what good policy looks like and that’s what we implemented in Tuesday night’s budget and that’s what my government will do, building on the foundations that we’ve laid in our first term.
 

His team have been on the ball as well – making sure he was aware of the fuel prices in the city to which he’s calling in:

Q: Cheaper petrol though, for one year or not, is pretty appealing. Have you filled up lately? It was about $2 a litre yesterday in Perth.
 
Albanese:

Yeah indeed, I’m fully aware. The latest figures that I have is that in Perth per litre was around about $1.75 – I know people do shop around. But the last fuel excise reduction ended when the Liberals legislated it to end. And what they’re committing here to do is to end it again. Introduce it for a short term to get through an election campaign and then get rid of it at the same time as they are actually promising to legislate higher taxes. The first time in the entire time I’ve been involved in politics, which has been around for a while, that any government or opposition have said, ‘Vote for us and we’ll give you higher taxes for every single Australian taxpayer’. Not just for some, every taxpayer will be paying higher taxes under them. And they don’t support our cost of living measures.