PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS

Ms CAMPBELL (Moreton) (19:15): Can I say that, if the member for Barker had his way, his constituents would be going pretty hungry, and they'd be going pretty hungry because the butcher and the baker simply cannot wait the 20 years that his nuclear dream has to come to fruition. The butcher and the baker cannot afford the billions and billions and billions of dollars that we know would have to be invested to make his nuclear dream a reality.

What is incredibly clear is that the member for Barker has certainly not learnt his lesson from what the Australian people had to say about it at the 2025 election. Can I say that this is not an economic plan. What this is is a list of the coalition's unfulfilled regrets, and we should go through them.

The coalition say that they want to deliver lower taxes. Can I say: if the coalition wanted to deliver lower taxes, why did they vote against them? Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times but five times the opposition voted against lower taxes.

If the coalition wanted to deliver lower power prices, why are they so dead set against renewables, which we know are cheaper and cleaner, and instead pursuing an energy future of nuclear, something that we know is devastatingly expensive and takes a very long time to deliver? If the coalition wanted to provide more housing, why did they vote against housing policies that would see 75,000 people—young people—getting into their very first home?

And, if the coalition wanted to put Australians first, why will they not tell us what they want to cut? If the experience in Queensland has anything to say on that then we know what the playbook is. The playbook is cutting from domestic violence support and from health.

In Queensland, that is what we have seen. You can't look at what the opposition says. You can't trust what the opposition has to say, because, again and again and again, we see them do the opposite.

So, rather than looking at an economic plan that is based on an absolute fantasy, what we should do is look at what they've done, how they've voted and the policies that they have put to the Australian people, because they are policies of higher taxes, they are policies of lower wages and they are policies of more cuts to the support that Australians need and rely on every single day.

I believe that an economic plan is not a list of things that you haven't done. I believe that an economic plan sets out who we want to be as a country and sets out how the economy can work for Australians every day. We know that, right now, Australians are doing it tough.

We know that people are struggling to pay the bills and we know that, when they get to the checkout or to the bowser, it's tough. On top of that, we know that there's an incredibly challenging global outlook right now. That's why this Labor government is reducing taxes for everyday Australians.

It's why we're implementing tax relief and tax reform to make our economy work in the best interests of more Australians. It's why we're investing in health care, where urgent care clinics, cheaper medicines and making more bulk-billing GPs come back to our communities are our priority. It's why we're investing in housing, to make sure young people can re-enliven that dream of having their very own home for the very first time.

It's why we've taken an inherited trillion dollars of debt with bigger deficits and stagnant wage growth from the coalition and turned them around. The budget is nearly $45 billion stronger than the mid-year update. And this is a government that isn't just saying things.

It's a government that's making the lives of everyday Australians better every day.