Peter Dutton:

Thank you, Anthony for being here and thank you to every Australian who has taken an interest in what I think is an important election.

As we approach May 3, many Australian also ask are you better off today than you were three years ago? As I have spoken to thousands of Australians, young families, pensioners, people in small businesses, it’s obvious to me that people don’t feel better off. People have faced an existential cost-of-living crisis.

People have seen food prices go up by 30%. Their mortgages have gone up on 12 occasions. Our plan is to get our country back on track to help young Australians realise the dream of homeownership again, to make sure we can help manage the economy so we can get inflation down.

If we do that, that will lower interest rates. We want to help people with the cost-of-living crisis, make sure we can give $1200 back to Australians, money they worked hard for and reduce their petrol price by 25 cents a heart.

Matt Grudnoff says this is the wrong question: Who is best likely to make things better over the next 3 years is what people should be focused on.

Greg Jericho is already losing his mind over the ‘groceries prices have gone up by 30%’ line “lies, lies, lies” he says. He did the figures last week – it is 12%. Still bad, so why does Dutton need to over exaggerate it?