Shadow Portfolio — 14 May 2026

Julian Leeser used a parliamentary contribution on 14 May 2026 to preview the Opposition Leader's budget reply, framing Labor's budget as a package of higher taxes, more debt, lower living standards and fewer homes. He grounded the tax critique in a constituent case — a first-generation migrant family in Beecroft whose retirement savings face erosion under proposed capital gains tax changes — to argue the reforms punish ordinary long-term investors.

He also raised the case of Jemma Juckes, a 34-year-old who died of rare-mutation lung cancer after accessing an experimental treatment at $10,000 per session, and called on the government to accelerate PBS listing for rare-cancer drugs. The two lines of attack — tax policy and health access — together sketch the opposition's living-standards frame ahead of the budget reply.