QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Dr CHALMERS (Rankin—Treasurer) (14:08): I thank the member for McEwen for his question, and I acknowledge his wonderful granddaughters in the gallery today. Ava and Lacey, welcome to the House of Representatives, where your pa makes a really terrific contribution to our team on this side of the House. You're here on a really important week because tomorrow is a really important day where we deliver more cost-of-living relief for Australians in every corner of the country.
We are delivering tax cuts, we are delivering a stronger budget, we're delivering real change in the tax system to help first home buyers, and, from tomorrow, we are delivering more help with the cost of living as well. From tomorrow, which is 1 July, we cut income taxes again, we boost wages again, we extend paid parental leave, we pay super with wages, we extend petrol price relief, and we make the small business instant asset write-off permanent.
Earlier today, I was with the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors, Minister for Social Services and the member for Bean at Uniting in Weston. It's a wonderful aged-care home there. We were talking to the workers there.
A personal care worker, from tomorrow, gets 59 bucks extra a week because of the award increase. A registered nurse gets 86 bucks a week and an enrolled nurse $67 a week. We support these wage rises, and we support these tax cuts, unlike those opposite.
We've made progress on inflation, and we've seen petrol and diesel prices come down substantially. But people are still under pressure, and that's why there is more help on the way from tomorrow. This is the cost-of-living relief that Australians need and deserve, and this Albanese Labor government is providing it.
We're providing this help at the same time as new numbers show that debt is now $200 billion lower than what we inherited from those opposite, and the deficit this year will be smaller as well. So we are delivering for workers, for first home buyers, for parents and for motorists, and those opposite want none of this cost-of-living relief, none of these tax cuts to flow— Opposition members interjecting— Dr CHALMERS: I take their interjections.
I know that the member for Lindsay has been saying that they need to rebrand their values over there. It's not a marketing problem over there; it's a meltdown. The member for Hume said that his leadership was a change or die moment, and then he made the wrong choice.
He said it was a change or die moment, and then he forgot to change. So that leaves only one option. They haven't changed a bit.
They haven't learned a thing. All three of the right-wing parties over there share a divisive anti-worker and anti-housing agenda, and that more than anything explains the mess that they're in. We're delivering cost-of-living relief, with more cost-of-living relief from tomorrow, 1 July.
We're proud to do that, and it's happening despite those opposite not because of them.