Ms MILLER-FROST (Boothby) (16:41): Those opposite seem to have some misplaced nostalgia for the Morrison era. Their 'back on track' mantra offers Australians the spectre of going backwards to the Morrison era. I don't know of any Australians who actually look back fondly on the man who holidayed in Hawaii while Australia burned, but, since they're clear they want to take Australia backwards, let's revisit some of the ghosts of the past. While we could go through the secret ministries, the rorts or the scandals, let's start with economic mismanagement: nine long years of running up debt with deficit after deficit. They were on track to exceed $1 trillion of debt in the next year, and two-thirds of it ran up before the pandemic. Every Australian family knows that, if you spend more than you earn, you build debt, and that's exactly what those opposite did to our country. We inherited inflation at 6.1 per cent and rising. Real wages were going back by 3.4 per cent as a deliberate economic strategy by those opposite. When inflation goes up and your wages are going backwards, that's a direct hit on your standard of living. Productivity growth had suffered its worst decade in 60 years. Twenty-four coal-fired power stations had announced closures, and those opposite had done exactly nothing about it. There was a chronic skills shortage in every sector of the economy, and, instead of addressing this, they just put barriers in front of Australians who wanted to upskill to get jobs. They made it more expensive to upskill. Talk about pulling the ladder up behind you. They really don't like young Australians, and they certainly don't want them to be able to build a career, afford a house, start a family or do whatever they want in their lives. I'm sorry to depress you with that brief sojourn into the dark years when those opposite were wielding their worst on the Australian public to please their wealthy, elite big-business owners, but I think it's important, when they start talking about taking Australia backwards, to remember what that track was. But I don't want to leave you depressed, so what have we been doing? We've turned their nine deficits into back-to-back surpluses. They've been banked, bringing Australia's debt level down and reducing our interest burden. Inflation has more than halved, down from 6.1 per cent to 2.1 per cent, and, yes, underlying inflation is coming down as well. There have now been four consecutive quarters of real wages growth. This government wants Australians to earn more, and it's happening, but we also want them to keep more of what they earn. That's why Labor's tax cuts benefited every single worker in Australia, not just the wealthy ones that those opposite wanted them to benefit. Over a million jobs have been created, the majority full time. The unemployment rate is on track to average below four per cent for the entire parliamentary term for the first time since records began, and, while those opposite let 24 coal-fired stations announce closures and did nothing to fill the energy gap, we've signed off 65 large-scale renewable projects. That is enough to power over four million Australian homes, including energy storage, an important part of ensuring that we have 24/7 power available for all Australians. To address energy costs for Australians we've capped the costs, and we've provided direct, targeted energy bill relief—both measures that those opposite voted against. We've wiped $3 billion of student debt for more than three million Australians. We've introduced prac payments for nursing, midwifery, teaching and social work students, to remove another barrier. We've provided over 500,000 fee-free TAFE places, because, unlike those opposite, who pull the ladder up behind them, we understand that not only is this a great hand up for Australians who want to upskill and have great careers; it's also fundamental for the prosperity of this country that we solve our skilled labour shortage. We've put $32 billion into addressing the housing shortage. Those opposite cared so little about housing for Australians that for much of the last decade they didn't even have a housing minister. In the health sector, we tripled bulk-billing incentives, leading to an average four per cent increase in bulk-billing consults in my state of South Australia. We've provided cheaper medicines by cutting the co-payment, freezing PBS prices and introducing 60-day prescriptions. They voted against it. These are all measures that save Australians money. While those opposite talk openly about taking Australia backwards, we cannot risk the man voted by doctors as the worst health minister ever. He was the worst home affairs minister. This is a reckless, arrogant opposition leader who seems to think he can go to an election with zero costed policies in the public domain. I'm left with a question: does the opposition leader actually not have any plan, or is he just keeping it secret from the Australian voters? Either way, it's too big a risk. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Chesters ): The discussion has concluded.