Peter Dutton launches Coalition's 2025 election campaign

Australian Community Media

The Leader of the Opposition briefly outlined the Coalition's key focus areas, including the nuclear energy policy, and fuel excise plans, and the reduction to immigration in the hopes of improving housing affordability.

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00:00The question Australians need to ask is are you better off today, is our country better

00:04off today than three years ago?

00:08Generations of Australians have built their lives and our country on the belief that if

00:13you work hard you can get ahead and build a better future for your children.

00:17However right now Australia is going backwards.

00:21The Prime Minister spent the first half of this term of Parliament obsessed with the

00:24voice and it meant that he didn't have a plan to deal with the scourge of inflation.

00:31Because of Labor's bad decisions, Australians are doing it tough and they need help.

00:38Worse still for many, they're losing hope for their future, 29,000 small businesses

00:43have gone broke over the course of the Albanese Government's first term.

00:50I don't believe that we can simply afford to continue down the current path and that

00:54means that we can't afford three more years of Labor.

00:58Labor's economic policies and wasteful spending have increased the cost of living for everyday

01:03Australians.

01:05Australians are now paying on average 18% more for rent, 30% more for groceries and

01:11over 30% more for power and gas.

01:15Under Labor Australia's had the biggest fall in living standards in the developed world

01:21and Australia has just recorded the highest annual number of small business bankruptcies

01:25as I say on record.

01:27Too many young Australians feel that the dream of home ownership is completely beyond them.

01:33And what sort of Prime Minister in the middle of a cost of living crisis promises a 70 cent

01:38a day tax cut starting in 15 months' time?

01:43Australian families need relief now and we must do better and there is a better way and

01:48the Coalition has an achievable plan to get our country back on track.

01:53That's why a Coalition Government will cut fuel excise by 25 cents a litre so that every

01:58time you fill up your car or your ute at the Bowser it's about $14 cheaper.

02:03Our plan will help get our country back on track.

02:07A Government I lead will build a strong economy with low inflation and we will deliver this

02:13by reining in the wasteful spending that fuels inflation.

02:16We will reduce tax, red tape and we will take control again of building sites and take them

02:24away from the CFMEU and the organised crime groups.

02:29We want to make sure that we can make building sites safe again, that we can make construction

02:33affordable again in our country.

02:36We'll deliver cheaper energy to families and small businesses.

02:39I think this is a really important point and one of the big points of difference between

02:43what Labor will offer at this election and what the Coalition will offer to the Australian people.

02:49This includes, as you know, by immediately delivering more Australian gas for Australians.

02:55It will lower energy costs and it will prepare us for the future as we need cheaper energy,

03:02we need reliable energy and we need cleaner energy.

03:06We will make housing more affordable by reducing Labor's record migration intake, by funding

03:12critical infrastructure, assisting first home buyers and restricting foreign investors.

03:18By making housing more affordable, we'll restore the hope of home ownership for young Australians.

03:26We'll take the necessary decisions and show the necessary resolve to keep Australians safe.

03:31We're going to boost spending for the Australian Defence Force because we live in a very uncertain time.

03:37We're going to make our suburbs and our towns safer and we're going to make sure that we

03:42have a focus on border security once again.

03:45And we'll improve health care, reversing Labor's decline in bulk billing and importantly reversing

03:51their cuts to mental health services.

03:54I bring experience and a track record to this job.

03:59I have a track record as a police officer, as a small business owner and as a minister

04:04across a number of portfolios.

04:07Importantly, I have a very experienced team and with people from diverse backgrounds who

04:13have experience running small businesses, creating jobs and delivering health care,

04:18serving our country and their communities.

04:20Our team is united, experienced and ready for the responsibility of governing Australia.

04:26Our plan, our plan will deliver a stronger economy with low inflation and affordable

04:32homes in safer communities, a stronger, safer, better Australia.

04:37When it comes to the economy, inflation, energy, housing and security, Labor has simply failed

04:44to deliver.

04:45And unfortunately, Mr Albanese is too weak and Labor is too incompetent to fix the problems

04:51that they've created and that are facing our country today.

04:55We can't afford three more years like the last three.

04:58There is a better way for our country and my team and I have a practical plan which

05:02will deliver cost of living relief and lower power prices into the future.

05:07I ask Australians for your vote for your Liberal and National candidates at the next election

05:13so that we can get our country back on track and to make sure that we can deal with our

05:18times which are very uncertain.

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