Cost of living
Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (10:14): It is time for our governments to stand up and step in to take bold action to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, not shrink from the crisis, not be small government, not backflip, not throw communities under the bus like the federal government did with the census question, similar to the state government backflipping on criminal justice law reform, backflipping on banning duck shooting, backflipping on gas and backflipping on the safe injecting room and drug law reform. Victorians need an interventionist approach to the economy to stop unlimited rent rises, to stop supermarket price gouging, to make profiteering corporations pay their fair share of tax and to help people in need.