Canavan blasts Labor for abandoning cost-of-living promise

Nationals Leader Matt Canavan says Labor has dropped its pledge to lower living costs, arguing the government no longer has a plan to ease pressure on households. “In all of the governments rush to increase taxes on Australians they seem to have forgotten that the biggest issue raised with me is the cost of living,” Mr Canavan told Sky News Australia. “The government doesn’t have a plan now to lower living costs for Australians. “It’s always been Tomorrow and they’ve never delivered that promise and now they’ve dropped it completely. “In there budget they didn’t even mention the idea, the promise, the expectations that energy prices would drop, that living costs would drop soon.”