Today’s Labour force figures expose the growing gap between Jim Chalmers’ rhetoric and the economic reality Australians are facing with higher unemployment and a cost of living crisis. Labor’s own Budget forecast the unemployment rate for the end of this financial year to be 4.25%. Today’s figure of 4.5% shows the labour market is responding Read More >
To Sam McCulloch, Cecile Wake, and the entire AEP team: Thank you for championing our critical gas and oil industry – gas and oil that’s vital for our economy and our prosperity. To leaders and representatives here today: Whatever part of the energy supply chain you work in – exploration, extraction, production, or distribution – Read More >
Thank you. Thank you to the sponsor, and to all my colleagues in the room who are prepared to fight for a better Australia. Last Tuesday night Australia was hit with an economic earthquake, and its epicenter was Canberra. There were warnings in the weeks prior, but many Australians didn’t believe the tremors would reverberate Read More >
“In an extraordinary admission, the Treasurer has declared his Budget is a lie based on the modelling that confirms he has an active inflation agenda”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments come off the back of the embattled Treasurer releasing modelling about the impact of his new taxes on first home buyers’ savings Read More >
“The Albanese government has hidden a 30% death tax ‘Easter egg’ in their bad faith Budget and was hoping they could sneak their assault on family savings past Australians”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments follow reports in The Australian that found a 30% death tax hidden in the Budget papers targeted at Read More >
Thank you, Mr Speaker. To Australians watching, thank you for your time. Tonight, I want to tell you about my vision for a fairer, freer, and better Australia for all. An Australia where life is affordable. An Australia where we have cheap and abundant energy. An Australia where industries thrive and businesses boom. An Australia Read More >
Leader of the Opposition Angus Taylor has used his Budget in Reply to announce the next stage of the Coalition’s plan for a fairer, freer and better Australia. After four years of higher taxes, more debt, fewer homes, weaker borders and falling living standards under Labor, the Coalition is putting forward seven policies to restore Read More >
After five Labor Budgets, Australians are paying more, working harder, and going backwards. This is a Budget with higher taxes, more debt, more division and no plan to restore Australians’ standard of living or protect our way of life. The Budget confirms Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are the owners of the highest taxing government Read More >
“The Reserve Bank was forced to increase interest rates again today because the Treasurer keeps pouring debt petrol on the inflation fire”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. Mr Wilson’s comments follow the Reserve Bank’s decision today to increase interest rates by a quarter of a per cent from 4.1% to 4.35%, and inflation data last Read More >
The Coalition will take immediate steps to unlock oil projects in Queensland and make it easier for industry to invest in Australia’s fuel future by removing barriers that stand in the way of new refining capacity in Australia. Building on our environmental reforms announced on 20 April 2026, we will immediately designate Taroom as a Read More >
The Coalition welcomes the tabling of the Interim Report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, and is concerned by a number of the issues raised. This Royal Commission raises serious questions about the state of Australia’s counter-terrorism settings and the Albanese Labor Government’s response to the growing threat of extremism and terrorism Read More >
“Every day Australians are struggling under the cost of household pressure in the economy Labor built. Higher inflation is not a bug of the economy Labor built it is a design feature. Australians’ wages are falling behind, and they don’t go as far at the supermarket. Today’s data shows Labor’s inflation has been supercharged by Read More >
The Coalition will more than double Australia’s minimum fuel reserves to 60 days and deliver at least 1 billion litres of new storage through an $800 million Australian Fuel Security Facility to protect Australians’ way of life and restore their standard of living. This is a practical plan the government can adopt now to keep Read More >
The Coalition will more than double Australia’s minimum fuel reserves to 60 days and deliver at least 1 billion litres of new storage through an $800 million Australian Fuel Security Facility to protect Australians’ way of life and restore their standard of living. This is a practical plan the government can adopt now to keep Read More >
“Leaks from out of the Albanese government’s Budget bunker suggests that Labor is preparing a Budget that doubles down on their failed active inflation agenda, when they should be backing Australians, their living standards, security and honest government”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. “Labor’s addiction to spending is driving up the cost of living today Read More >
The Coalition has outlined today a set of clear principles that will guide its approach to water policy development in the Murray-Darling Basin. These principles are about making sure future decisions support farmers, regional communities and the long-term health of the Basin. The Coalition’s principles are: Leader of the Opposition Angus Taylor said these principles Read More >
“Twenty years on from ‘Debt free day’ marking the Coalition paying off Labor’s debt, the Coalition has had to launch a digital debt clock as Federal debt teeters near $1 trillion, with Labor’s only plan to double-down and borrow further”, said Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson. “Labor claims higher taxes are good for young Australians, but Read More >
Australia urgently needs all forms of energy to tackle the current energy crisis. The Coalition will act decisively to lift Australians’ living standards and protect our way of life by backing the resources sector to invest, create jobs, and strengthen Australia’s energy sovereignty. This will be done through targeted, practical reforms that quickly remove investment Read More >
Defence Minister Richard Marles must come clean on his accounting trickery with a radical new measure of defence spending, as well as his $5 billion of secret cuts. In today’s National Press Club Speech, the Defence Minister obscured more than he revealed. Australia faces the most dangerous strategic environment since the Second World War, yet two years Read More >
Today’s Labour Force data tells Australians what they already know: they are working harder for less. Hours worked are at a new record high but Australian’s continuing to go backwards and struggle to make ends meet. While the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 4.3 per cent in March, more than 100,000 additional Australians are Read More >