BY PETER DUTTON
Are you, your family, and our country better off today than three years ago?
Consider what’s occurred on Labor’s watch.
Unrestrained government spending that’s fuelled inflation. Twelve interest rate rises. A cost-of-living crisis. The worst collapse in living standards in our country’s history – and the developed world. An economy that will soon be burdened with $1 trillion in debt.
A renewables-only energy policy trainwreck. Power bills that haven’t gone down by $275 as promised., but risen by $1300. Some 30,000 small businesses gone bust.
In just two years, a record one million migrants brought in. A housing crisis as a result.
An 11 per cent fall in bulk billing, GP shortages.
Surging youth crime and antisemitism. Some 300 hardcore criminals released from immigration detention, with one third re-offending.
Tourist visas granted to 3,000 people from a terrorist-controlled war zone without thorough security checks.
A blind eye turned to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military aggression and Russian provocation.
And the divisive Voice referendum.
A coalition government will get Australia back on track. Here’s what we will do:
Halve the fuel tax, saving you about $750 a year, per vehicle. Give 85 per cent of taxpayers a rebate of up to $1200. Rein in wasteful government spending to get inflation and interest rates down.
Get more gas into the domestic system to bring down power bills and costs across the economy. Shore up our future energy security with nuclear power.
Re-energise our economy by defunding environmental activists, stopping mafia-like mobs in our building sector, giving tax breaks to small businesses and green-lighting resource projects.
Revive the dream of home ownership by reducing migration, banning foreign investors and temporary residents from purchasing existing homes, getting projects off the ground with infrastructure investment and allowing first home buyers to access their super for a deposit and deduct the interest they pay on their mortgage.
Commit more money to Medicare than Labor. Ensure classrooms are places of education, not indoctrination.
Crack down on crime. Deport non-citizen criminals – again. Stop the boats – again. And lift defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP.
If I’m given the great honour to lead our country, I will create certainty for our country amidst international uncertainty and revive our national confidence.
I will proudly stand in front of our one national flag to remind Australians of the things that unite us: our citizenship, shared values, and love for our country.
The difference between a bleak future and a better future comes down to common sense.
This Saturday, I have every confidence the common sense of Australians will elect the coalition.
