There does seem to be a journalist in the room.

Fantastic Angus. Great work. Well done.

He seems to have one line he wants to make clear:

Q: You say that Labor predictions show they won’t restore living standards until 2030, how soon do you think the coalition government will?

We need to accelerate. That was my point. That means beating inflation sustainably.

So he doesn’t have a plan for that, but he is very sure that “Australian households had to do the work”.

Which, well – yes.

But what would a Coalition do differently?

Taylor stops short of saying something like ‘inflation will always be lower under a government I lead’ but only just. He says that:

Sustainably lower inflation and lower interest rates than they otherwise would have had, accelerating the pathway back to the standard of living they enjoyed before Labor came to power. It’s pretty basic stuff. Let’s be clear about economic management. Labor doesn’t know how to manage the economy. If you want to beat a cost of living crisis, the key is economic management. You cannot beat a cost of living crisis if you can’t manage the economy. That’s exactly what we’ve seen under Labor, seven consecutive quarters of GDP per capita going backwards, that’s not good economic management.

Sigh – Greg Jericho is working on a response because mine is just UUGKNfkljewgbdjls’acnsjl’dghls