Labor hasn’t done any heavy lifting to help tame inflation
To give credit where it is due, Jim Chalmers is resisting the many calls to spend the first surplus. But not spending more is where federal Labor’s assistance for Australians ends.
At last, Australians are starting to see the rate of inflation start to decrease – but it’s a long way from time for Labor to start patting itself on the back.
Instead, the federal government should perhaps be thanking Australia’s mortgage holders for making the tough decisions needed at the household level to rein in spending, given the absence of leadership from the cabinet to do the same at the fiscal level.
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Amanda Stoker is a former senator and assistant minister to the Attorney General. She is the preselected LNP candidate for the Queensland state seat of Oodgeroo.
