Families in Springwood and across Australia are paying almost $3 a litre for petrol. Meanwhile organised crime is making super profits on illicit tobacco that could be used to cut fuel excise, and the Treasurer doesn't want to hear about it. That's why the Coalition will cut the fuel excise when international events push prices up too high, and we'll use organised crime's super profits to pay for it. More money for Australian families, less money for organised crime.

You can't grow the economy by raising new taxes on housing and investment, and you can't grow the economy by stoking inflation with government spending making everything more expensive. Labor's active inflation agenda and new taxes are crippling the economy. That's why we are going to scrap both of them, so Australians that want to get ahead aren't punished for it.

Jim Chalmers' active inflation agenda is sending the wealth and wages of Australians backwards. Because of his addiction to spending, families and small businesses are staring down the barrel of 3 more interest rate rises.

Instead of addressing declining living standards, Jim Chalmers has cooked the books to make him look good. But Australians and the Reserve Bank are calling him out.

Labor has cooked the books in its Intergenerational Report to paper over decades of debt, deficits and higher taxes. You can read more about this, and how we turn Australia around in the Australian Financial Review.

The Intergenerational Report is dependent on the Albanese Government's inflation addiction, higher taxes, and higher debt.

Labor has lost sight of what matters to Australians, and now the wealth and wages of families are going backwards thanks to Labor’s active inflation agenda. Whether it’s in regional centres like Dubbo, or the suburbs of Melbourne, Australians are worse off thanks to the Albanese Labor government.

Albanese and Chalmers are like economic dementors from Harry Potter. They are sucking the economic soul and life out of households and small business, as they target the wealth and wages of Australians families. With 3 interest rate rises around the corner, and the price of everything else going up, the last thing Australians need is more of Labor’s taxes that they didn’t vote for.

Australian families and small businesses can't afford another interest rate rise, but Jim Chalmers keeps daring the Reserve Bank because he can't stop spending. Labor's economic agenda is eroding the wealth and wages of Australians, pushing up mortgages and making the shopping more expensive at the checkout.

Australians are drowning in the Treasurer’s rising inflation and interest rates, and now he’s been caught cooking the books to distract from falling real wages. How many more goes does the Treasurer get when wealth and wages are going backwards?

Across the board, Labor's budget has failed on housing. Less first home buyers, less completions, higher rents, and smashed confidence. That is Labor's legacy.

The Albanese government should be channeling incentives toward growing the economic pie, instead they’re starting fights over a share of a diminishing economy. Liberals want to grow it and advance the wealth and wages of Australian families. The only way to turn around our economy is to change the government.

Organised crime, CFMEU thugs and illicit tobacco gangs are getting a free pass under Labor. While organised crime funds terrorism and fire bomb our shops, the Albanese government keeps policies that protect their super profits.

Labor legends are saying what Australians are already feeling: this budget has been a disaster for wealth and wages. It's time the Prime Minister took his head out of the sand, and scrapped his taxes that no one voted for.

Labor legends are calling out the Prime Minister for his failed budget that is destroying the wealth and wages of Australians. Albanese's active inflation agenda is designed to stoke inflation, tax inflation and spend inflation in a vicious cycle that sends Australians backward.

Labor is destroying the wealth and wages of Australians through their active inflation agenda. It is designed to stoke inflation, tax inflation, and spend the inflation in a vicious cycle that sends you backwards - in your pay packet and at the supermarket.

Congratulations to the Ormond Football Club on making history last weekend. Ninety-five years of brown and blue, and this group has written a brand new chapter for the club. Well done, Monders. You have done your club and our community proud.

The Albanese government is protecting the super profits of organised crime trading illicit tobacco. Crime gangs are raking in billions and using it to fund terrorism here on our streets. The Coalition has a plan to crush the organised crime gangs by stepping up enforcement, and cutting the tobacco excise to drive them out of business.

Small business is the engine room of our community. Last week Google came to Brighton to help power it up. Local owners spent the morning discovering how AI can take the grunt work off their plate. Less time buried in admin. More time doing what they actually love. Big thanks to the team at Google for running a cracking session and putting real, practical tools in the hands of our traders. This is what standing with small business looks like. Local. Practical. Backing the people who back our community.

Wishing the Jewish community a happy, healthy and peaceful Rosh Hashanah. May the year ahead be one of sweetness, renewal and hope. Shana Tova.