Community News & Speeches

26 May | '2023

TRANSCRIPT – ABC AFTERNOON BRIEFING

GREG JENNETT:
It’s time to move on to our political panel and joining us this Thursday right here in the studio, Regional Development, Local Government and Territories Minister, Labor’s Kristy McBain. Welcome back Kristy and Shadow Early Childhood Minister, Liberal MP for Moncrieff, Angie Bell. Welcome to you to Angie.

23 May | '2023

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

The coalition strongly supports affordable access to medicines for all Australians, and we have a strong record to prove it. When we were last in government, we listed more than 2,900 new or amended medicines on the PBS, at an overall investment of around $16.5 billion. However, many concerns have been raised with me in […]

22 May | '2023

Superannuation

I move a motion relating to superannuation tax on the terms in which it appears in the notice paper. Well Labor have never met a tax they didn’t like. In fact, in 12 months the Albanese government has riddled two budgets full of new taxes and broken promises. The last election we warned Australians—we warned […]

19 May | '2023

TRANSCRIPT – DOORSTOP, SYDNEY

SUSSAN LEY:
Well, good afternoon. When the aspirations and enterprise of Australian women are supported, all Australians benefit. That was the theme behind the Women’s Economic Security Roundtable that I held this morning.

15 May | '2023

You can’t spend way out of trouble

Labor has a trick of delivering their bad news to you ahead of time as a prophecy of what lies ahead, then blaming anything else including the former government for their terrible outcomes.

15 May | '2023

TRANSCRIPT – ABC RADIO GOLD COAST

SARAH CUMMING:
As we heard in the news, the Opposition Leader used last night’s Budget Reply speech to lay the blame for any future increase to interest rates at the feet of the Albanese Government. Peter Dutton argued the government’s budget will fuel inflation and make cost of living pressures worse for millions of Australians. He said the budget risks creating a generation of working poor Australians.

10 May | '2023

Cost of Living

Tonight, the Treasurer will stand at this dispatch box and deliver what he claims is a cost-of-living budget—a budget that he says will deliver cost-of-living relief for Australians who need it most. The thing is we’ve heard that before from this government. We heard it when they promised a $275 reduction to your power bill, […]

8 May | '2023

Young Australians Whacked with Super Tax

A 20-year-old today earning an average salary will be caught in the net of Labor’s doubling of superannuation taxes. Modelling released to the Coalition under Freedom of Information on the government’s controversial superannuation tax hike confirm the changes will apply to young Australians earning average wages over their lifetimes.

28 Apr | '2023

TRANSCRIPT – ABC AFTERNOON BRIEFING

GREG JENNETT:
It was time now to bring in our political panel and joining us, Labor frontbencher, Kristy McBain, Kristy is in Sydney today and Liberal MP Angie Bell, Angie is in Brisbane. Welcome both.