Asked about the future of the energy bill rebate (which helped shave a few points off CPI – which was the point) Jim Chalmers said:

We treat the withdrawal of the energy bill rebates the same way the Reserve Bank does in its forecast, as a you described it, that’s a reason for – one of the drivers of the inflation forecast that the bank has released today, we’ll release our own forecast in due course.

When it comes to additional cost of living help, whether it’s energy bill rebates or others, as I said, in response to the questions from this side, we keep that under constant review.

If there’s a case for affordable responsible cost of living help, then we’ll do it. We have done that in the first three budgets, we found a way to make that consistent with cleaning up the mess that we inherited in the budget itself. If there’s other ways we can do that, in a responsible meaningful way, we’ll consider that.