MALLEE voters turned out in force for early voting on Tuesday at Swan Hill wondering how they can secure some cost-of-living relief.
Under Anthony Albanese, mortgage repayments are up 41 per cent, gas 34 per cent, insurance 33 per cent, income tax 25 per cent and rents 15 per cent.
Labor failed to deliver the $275 energy bill relief they promised 97 times before the last election – bills have gone up by over $1000 – Labor’s only ‘relief’ is 13 months away, tinkering with a 70-cent-a-day tax cut.
The Coalition is offering immediate cost-of-living relief at the bowser, halving fuel excise to deliver 25 cents a litre off – or about $14 saved – every time you fill up the family car. Then from July 2026 if you lodge your tax return, 10 million taxpayers will get up to $1200 in immediate cash back.
The Coalition’s plans to reserve Australian gas for Australians will, once implemented, also reduce gas bills by 7 per cent and energy bills by 3 per cent.
Mr Albanese keeps pulling out a Medicare card as a gimmick but bulk billing rates have fallen from 88 per cent when Mr Dutton was Health Minister, to 77 per cent under Labor.
The Coalition has committed over $9 billion into Medicare spending this election, helping you see a doctor more affordably, sooner and nearer to where you live.
Mr Albanese trots out the line “no-one held back and nobody left behind” but that sums up what Albanese and Allan Labor governments are doing, by design, in regional Victoria.
Labor’s scorched earth approach to regional Australia – robbing regions to buy votes in the capital cities – is holding the Swan Hill region back from growing, with services centralised away from the region and leaving us behind with our roads crumbling away.
The PM’s odd choice of election timing also sees us begin voting between Easter and Anzac Day, when we ought to pause and reflect on those who have made the greatest sacrifice for our freedoms.
Lest we Forget.
