QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Women, Minister for Government Services and Manager of Government Business in the Senate) (14:54): I thank Senator Ananda-Rajah for the second supplementary. Delivering on cost-of-living support is our No. 1 priority, and it has been since we came to government, in conjunction with dealing with all of the other areas of dysfunction and neglect that we inherited—in energy policy, in aged care, in early education and care, in the environment, in our trade, in our international relationships and in the budget.

We have also, while undertaking that work, been implementing new measures to help families with cost-of-living pressures. The tax changes are a really important part of that, but so are our other investments—whether in energy bill relief, in our Medicare urgent care clinics, in tripling the bulk-billing rate or in making sure that people can get access to more medicines, cheaper medicines, with 60-day dispensing.

They are all part of our plan to make sure we're doing whatever we can to help families with those cost-of-living pressures.