Ahhhh, I knew it couldn’t last. The whole transcript of Sussan Ley’s remarks on the steps of the church has lobbed and of course, it includes polticking. It is obviously what God would want.

Ley:

So in the last Parliament, you would remember that Australians were promised a $275 cut to their power bill, which never eventuated. Now, leading into this Parliament, we saw the Prime Minister make promises about the number of homes that would be built and in the lead up to the election, he also promised Australians would pay less tax. But clearly there is work going on to increase the taxes on hardworking Australians, and we know this because of leaked Treasury advice that demonstrates that there will be a plan coming forward to tax Australians more. Now that’s a broken promise if that happens and we will hold them to account.

Similarly, that Treasury advice says that there’s no way the government could build 1.2 million homes and that too presents as a broken promise.

Now Australians are doing it tough out there, and I was alarmed to see this morning that access to homelessness services has increased by 10 per cent for Australians since Labor came to government in 2022. But for women it’s actually higher than that – It’s 14 per cent. That’s not good enough.

Similarly, we see this morning that about a quarter of GP clinics are saying they won’t be accessing the government’s bulk billing incentives. So what that means is that it will continue to cost Australians more to go and see a doctor. But we all saw the Prime Minister stand there with his Medicare card saying Australians would not be paying. Well, today it looks like Australians will be paying more to see a doctor. So that is not good enough.

We stand ready to work hard for the Australian people every single day, and I look forward to holding the government to account very strongly and with great determination where we need to on these matters.