Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have clashed over Labor's attempts to fix the economic circumstances it 'inherited' from the former Coalition government.
"Instead of complaining about what happened last year or the year before, get on with the job."
"What we've got to do, off the back of there being no real wage growth over the last 10 years, is to get growth back into the economy. "If we hadn't done that, the fundamentals of the economy wouldn't have been strong enough to deal with the reality and the shock of COVID," the Opposition Leader said.
Mr Dutton continued to lash out at the Albanese government, saying"we know traditionally Labor can't manage money or the Budget"."The Prime Minister confirmed in Question Time this week that Labor will break that promise.""We've made it very clear we are going to act on climate change in a way which gets more renewables into the electricity grid," the Deputy Prime Minister said.
In an economic update to Parliament on Thursday, Treasurer Jim Chalmers declared there was no use tiptoeing around the pressures faced by Australians.
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