Q: For all of us in the media when we ask viewers and our readers about the cost of living, some would say have you seen the price of eggs recently? It is the great topic in kitchens and in the shopping aisles of Australia. What does it say about your opponent do you think that he doesn’t know the price of eggs?

(Last night Dutton said they were $4.20. Albanese said $7. The hosts quoted about $8-9 across the majors)

Albanese:

I think importantly he doesn’t know the price of Australian values right across the board. Those sorts of things can happen, that is the truth. They can happen.(Albanese is referring to Dutton getting the price of eggs wrong, but also to his own mistake last campaign in not having the inflation number, so he is giving Dutton a bit of grace)

I am not going to – he had an explanation for that, I guess. (Dutton said he buys a half dozen of eggs) The thing about eggs that I know because I hear it, is people are struggling to find eggs on the supermarket shelves.

We know inflation is a real issue, the cost of living. The difference in this election is that Peter Dutton has spent three years identifying problems and saying somehow that the government is responsible as if global inflation has not occurred, as if we haven’t had the biggest energy crisis since the 1970s. As if the High Court don’t make decisions independent of government. The truth is, this election campaign has exposed that he has no solutions. Dare I say it, that has come through during this campaign.