QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator McGRATH (Queensland) (14:00): My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Australians are paying record prices for energy, for fuel and for groceries. Everywhere they turn, they are paying more.

In the middle of all of this, the government is proposing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars creating over 40 new politicians and increasing the size of parliament. Minister, who is asking for this—the Australian people or the Australian Labor Party?