If you’ve felt powerless during the cost-of-living crisis, relief will soon be in your hands in the privacy of a voting booth.

Under the Albanese Labor Government, electricity prices are up 32 per cent, mortgage repayments up 41 per cent, gas is up 35 per cent and insurance is up 33 per cent.

Remember Labor’s promise, made 97 times before the last election, that your energy bills will permanently reduce by $275 per annum?   The lived experience is power bills have gone up by $1,300.

Families with a typical mortgage are paying $50,000 more in interest repayments since Labor came to power.  Victorians are struggling to meet their mortgage repayments, with the nation’s highest percentage of borrowers in 90-day arrears, almost double what it was in 2023.

As Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health, I am pleased to say the Coalition has promised almost $10 billion for Medicare to make health care and medicines more affordable.

In health, Labor continues to rob regions to buy votes in the cities, not content with taking doctors from the regions as soon as they seized office, Labor recently added the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast as ‘regional’ priority areas which does nothing for Horsham, the Wimmera or Mallee.

The average taxpayer is paying $3,500 more in income tax compared when the Coalition was in office. Federal income tax is at an all-time high of 26.1 per cent of incomes in the last reporting year, compared with 23.7 per cent under the Coalition almost 3 years ago.  I don’t hear anyone in Mallee saying we have better roads or service to show for it.

Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton MP is outlining how the Coalition will help struggling families and small businesses, for example committing - on a return to government - to permanently increase the small business instant asset write-off to $30,000 per asset.

With 17 May the deadline for a federal election, Prime Minister Albanese has clung to office.

The good news is that soon you could help elect a new Coalition Government and get our country back on track.