Speech

“Question to the Treasurer, household electricity prices over nine years of corporatisation have soared from $860 to $2100 since 1995.

Petrol prices, following the refusal to mandate ethanol, soar 50 per ent above prices in Brazil and America.

Whilst with the world’s cheapest land, Australia pays the world’s highest housing prices.

With farm incomes falling disastrously, food prices rise and rise.

Can he explain why these, the real issues, are not being addressed in this budget.”