Anthony Albanese has fended off attempts by the Coalition to trip him up over the cash rate as the government comes under pressure for rising cost of living.
Question Time on Monday was dominated by an expected increase by the Reserve Bank in the official cash rate and the revelation of significant gas shortfalls by the consumer watchdog.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton during Question Time. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage “They spent nine years in office… and they will not take responsibility of anything that they left, the trillion dollars of debt or any of the other chaos they left in the economy.”
But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prediction of a 10 per cent gas shortfall by 2023 has raised concerns of booming energy prices.
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