Q: Is Peter Dutton a drag on the vote in Victoria?

Dutton:

I have seen the Prime Minister ‘s numbers and he is not far off when Jacinta Allan is in Victoria at the moment and people know in relation to this project that if you vote for Anthony Albanese you are voting against this Melbourne rail link and the airport link and that much, Victorians can see on display every day because you’ve got Jacinta Allan, Anthony Albanese and the CFMEU joint of the hip.

I am breaking that up. I am breaking the cabal up for the benefit of Victorians. I’m going to invest into Victoria, I’m going to put money into infrastructure. We’re going to get our great state again. At the moment I think we can win a number of seats and I think we can form government consistently and we will demonstrate to Victorians and Australians that there is a much better way for our country.

Q: In February are you prepared to call an RBA to cut rates again?

Dutton:

As we know, interest rates have gone up 12 times under Mr Anthony Albanese so families are worse off under this government and I think that’s important to point out. When the Prime Minister is promising 70 cents a day tax cut in 15 months time, he is saying that to families that he has taken $50,000 over the course of the last three years and that is why I think it is insulting Australians see it as insulting. We are saying to Australians we want to provide support now way of the 20 sent — 25 cents a litre tax cut for fuel and that will help families immediately and the things we want to do but in relation to interest rates, I’ve always pointed out the Reserve Bank governor has independence. I’ve always respected that. I want to see lower interest rates are families at the best way to get low interest rates in this country and to help families is to support your liberal and national candidates of the next election because as we know with this government and as a Reserve Bank governor has pointed out, homegrown inflation is because of Labor’s reckless spending and waste. We don’t see this in comparable countries. We are seeing it here because Labor continue to put pressure on inflation and that is what puts upward pressure…

Inflation is going down on all measures.

Comparable countries saw inflation rise earlier and their central banks raise rates earlier so it is not surprising that inflation which came later to Australia, and where the RBA raised rates later, drop later than comparable countries.

The fuel excise savings have been overestimated.