Peter Dutton again ignores questions about any of the detail of his own policy, including cost, which he is being asked about because he is obsessed with what Labor is spending, and instead pretends that it’s totally normal to not have any detail on the policy you are releasing and every one should just trust him.

Dutton is a multi-millionaire, who wants housing prices to continue to rise, but somehow become more affordable for first home buyers, who was calling tax cuts “an election bribe” until he decided he needed to do them too (short term) who has voted against the little bit of cost of living relief offered by the Labor government, who has no climate policies, who is cutting the fuel excise for one year because he is obsessed with fuel guzzling big utes, while also vowing to cut the cost of those fuel guzzling big utes so that more people buy that instead of an efficient vehicle, who wants to cut migration to free up housing (which no one says will work) but somehow also bring in skilled labourers to build extra housing, who has not mentioned renting or poverty once in this election, who has changed policies mid campaign, can’t actually tell you the detail of policies, or is just silent on them, who also was also a part of the Howard government that gave us these messed up housing tax and climate policies and then a member of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments that baked it all in – now he just wants you to trust him. Give me a break.

Both parties will release their costings in due course. That’s how the elections operate. What’s important now is people go into the Easter break and as they go into discussions with their families, it’s about who is better off to manage this economy and to keep our country safe.

It’s who is better able to restore the dream of home ownership. Who can give you $1,200 back of your own money to help you through Labor’s cost-of-living crisis. Who can cut petrol by 25 cents a litre on day one so that local tradies and families and delivery truck drivers and farmers and others receive that benefit, pensioners, people across the economy can benefit from that and as we have said, we’re not supporting Labor’s wasteful spending because its drives up inflation and when the Reserve Bank Governor in our country says that there is a hem-grown inflation problem from Labor’s spending she’s right. Interest rates came down much more quickly than they did in this part of the world in comparable economies and as we know in this country, Australians feel it in their hip pocket, they have been ripped off by Labor.

That’s what Labor’s legacy is and I don’t think Australians can afford three more years of Labor and I want to make sure that we can help manage the economy so we can deal with Labor’s cost-of-living crisis. We can fix up Labor’s energy crisis which is jacking up the cost of everything. We can restore the dream of ownership, and we can deliver excellent first-class health services in a way that Labor just can’t.