Peter Dutton then gets to give his statement:

I think your stories tonight will reflect the realities and the stories of millions of Australians, and it has been a tough year, a tough three years, in fact, for Australians.

People have seen the government make mistakes, starting with the voice and priorities, but just haven’t accorded with your own priorities.

Almost 30,000 small businesses have gone broke and behind each one of those stories, there is somebody who’s lost their house or lost their life savings, people have gone backwards, because when you go to the supermarket now, you’re now paying 30% more for groceries, paying about 32% more for your electricity.

And the prime minister promised at one of these debates at the last election that your power bills would go down by $275 instead, they’re up by $1,300.

I want to provide support to Australians from the first day that we’re elected, and that is through a 25 cent a liter cut to fuel, both diesel and unleaded. It’ll help families, it’ll help businesses, it’ll help pensioners, and it will help the economy.

In addition to that, we want to make sure that we can get gas for Australians, so that we can fix up the energy system, which is driving up the cost of everything, and if we can do that, we can get our country back on track. That’s a positive plan that I want to talk about.