‘We are suffering’: Perin Davey calls out Labor for ‘homegrown inflation’

Shadow Water Minister Perin Davey has called out the Albanese government for “homegrown inflation” which Australians are “suffering through”. Next week’s federal budget will include a $25 billion improvement in tax collections over four years. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will hand down the budget on Tuesday, May 14. “The first and the best way to address the cost of living is to address inflation, and that’s what we’ve seen from this government,” Ms Davey told Sky News Australia. “In the last two budgets, all we’ve seen is moves that actually exacerbate inflation. “We know that it is now homegrown inflation that we are suffering through here in Australia; it’s not been repeated around the world.”