QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Leader of the Nationals in the Senate) (14:39): The Reserve Bank said 'some of the increase in inflation reflects greater capacity pressures'. This is a clear shot at your government's failure to address the productivity crisis. Industrial relations laws; failure to reform tax or reduce red tape; high-cost green policies that you said would be cheap but are not; runaway spending on the $52 billion, and climbing, NDIS—when will the government take action to reduce the percentage of government spending across our economy that is now at a 40-year high?

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