Cost of living
Brad BATTIN (Berwick) (10:32): Cost of living is not something that is just a slogan when you use it on a DL card to send out to your community, it is the reality of many people living in my electorate. Some of the pressures they have been facing include interest rate rises, with 13 interest rate rises across the last 15, 16 months. They have also seen increases in their energy costs and just the cost of general living through our community. It is really important that the government gets their spending under control, and that is one way we can actually place downward pressure on inflation here in our state.