QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator SHOEBRIDGE (New South Wales—Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:19): Thanks, Minister. While wages are flatlining, the cost of almost everything else is on the rise—energy, food, rent, mortgages, insurance. And yet we see corporate profits on the rise, extracting more and more from people with less and less.

Why has Labor doubled down on an economy where it's only corporate profits, not real wages, that increase on your watch?