Mr HAMILTON (Groom) (13:02): I’ll start on a genuinely meant positive note: I want to thank the Assistant Treasurer for his opening conversation on APRA’s proposed changes to capital and liquidity requirements for the customer owned banks. In a cost-of-living crisis, it is clear that, if there is an increase in those requirements and that…
Labor should be making decisions in the national interest, but instead we see another budget that focuses on the wrong priorities. Instead of focusing on the fight against inflation, better services, the housing and cost of living crises’ – we see a pre-election Labor budget. Federal Member for Groom, Garth Hamilton said Labor had once…
For almost two years now, Labor has been missing in action on the Cost of Living crisis that is crippling many families and businesses across our region. The Senate Cost of Living Committee has now released its second Interim Report which makes 14 recommendations on how the Albanese Government can act to help Australians. In…
The starting point for tomorrow’s budget is that it must bring down Labor’s home-grown inflation. Federal Member for Groom, Garth Hamilton has called on the Albanese Labor Government to do more to tame inflation, ease the cost of living and get their priorities right. “They have been focused on the wrong priorities and so…
Two years of Labor’s failed policies and wrong priorities have left Australians worse off. Visiting Toowoomba yesterday, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor joined Federal Member for Groom, Garth Hamilton to meet with business and community leaders. Mr Hamilton said that family budgets had been smashed by higher prices, higher mortgage repayments and higher taxes over the…
Shadow Minister for Education, Sarah Henderson, says the Albanese Government is reaping dividends from the misery of escalating student debt, with ATO data revealing Australians paid a record $2.9 billion in voluntary HELP debt repayments in 2022-23, up from $780 million in the previous year. As a result of Labor’s sky high inflation, the 2022-23…
Mr HAMILTON (Groom) (11:46): It’s always valuable to hear the contributions from the member for Fraser. Labor have entered another dimension with this motion: they’ve gone on a journey through a wonderous land of imagination! They’ve entered the twilight zone. They’re nestled deep within the Canberra bubble, comforted by the orchestrated applause of a loving…
Over the past 18 months, real net disposable income for an average income earner has fallen, with a decline in take home pay of just under $8,000. As Labor’s cost of living crisis bites, the pain is primarily being driven by rising mortgage payments, falling real wages, and increasing taxes. Federal Member for Groom, Garth…
Mr HAMILTON (Groom) (11:47): The opening question, of course, is: where is the Treasurer? It’s a fair question. The previous minister, I’ll acknowledge, is the first Labor minister to sit the whole way through on this. I’ve sat in on a number of these consideration in detail processes. It’s become the norm for Labor not…
Aren’t MPIs fun! I’m going to address some of the issues that have been raised here. It was suggested previously that we can’t talk about immigration and its impact on infrastructure without somehow raising the prospect of the White Australia policy. That was raised in the context of the current debate on the Voice. So…