Peter Dutton continues [so does Grogs. He’s barely holding on at this point]

I want Australian families to be making choices about what they will eat – not choosing whether to eat or heat.

To fight cost-of-living pressures, we need to get interest rates down.

To get interest rates down, we need to get inflation down.

And to get inflation down, we need to address its underlying causes – especially wasteful government spending.

Tonight, I announce that a Dutton Coalition Government will rein-in key inflationary, ineffectual, and imprudent spending measures of the Albanese Labor Government.

We will end the reckless $20 billion Rewiring the Nation Fund. [How will he get power to people from his pretend nuclear plants?]

We will stop the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund – under which not a single additional new home has been built. [Amy has covered the funds]

We will scrap Labor’s $16 billion of production tax credits over the next decade for critical minerals and green hydrogen. [Paging MAGA]

And we will reverse Labor’s increase of 41,000 Canberra-based public servants – saving $7 billion a year once in place, and well over $10 billion over the forward estimates.

But I also make this guarantee.

In line with the national interest and public expectations, we will continue to invest in essential services and critical areas of the economy – like health, aged-care, veterans’ support, the NDIS, and defence.

We won’t cut frontline service delivery roles. [uhuh]

We will ensure that the services Australians rely on are sustainable.

The choice is clear at the next election.

Under Labor, you will see more reckless and wasteful spending which will cause interest rates and inflation to stay higher for longer. [for example????]

And that means you will continue to pay more for everything.

More for food, for rents, for mortgages, for power, and for insurance.

You will continue to pay more tax too. [The Coalition is repealing legislated tax cuts meaning you would pay more tax under the Coalition]

But under the Coalition, we will fight cost-of-living pressures at their source.”