Gold Coasters deserve action on the cost of living

Angie Bell MP
Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education
Shadow Minister for Youth
Federal Member for Moncrieff

MEDIA RELEASE

Gold Coasters deserve action on the cost of living

19 November 2024

Australians are poorer than they were two and a half years ago according to the Senate Cost of Living Committee.

The Committee held more than twenty hearings across Australia and received more than 1,500 submissions and responses to its community survey throughout the inquiry into the cost of living crisis.

The Final Report made nine recommendations across four areas of economic and fiscal policy, supermarket regulation, housing and construction, and charities and not-for-profits.

Federal Member for Moncrieff, Angie Bell, has called on the Albanese Labor Government to adopt the recommendations of the Report as a matter of priority.

“This report spells out clearly that Labor’s policies are making the cost of living crisis worse, and this is something that our community knows all too well.

“Despite the Prime Minister’s promise that Australians would be better off under Labor, everyone is feeling poorer because of high inflation, high interest rates and high energy bills.

“Everywhere I go my community is telling me the cost of living is the number one issue, and now we have the evidence to show that Labor is making the crisis worse.”

“Gold Coasters have been abandoned by Labor in this cost of living crisis and it’s high time we saw some action from the Albanese Government to provide sustainable cost-of-living relief.” Ms Bell said.

The Final Report from the Senate Cost of Living Committee was released on 15 November 2024 and is available here.

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