Ms TEMPLEMAN (Macquarie) (15:13): My question is to the Prime Minister. Petrol prices have gone up by as much as $900 a year for a typical family driving a standard car while real wages have fallen $700. On top of this, median rents in Windsor, in my electorate, have increased by almost $3,000 a year. Hasn't it become harder and harder for working families to make ends meet under this decade-old government?

Mr MORRISON (Cook—Prime Minister) (15:13): Our government has taken numerous initiatives to take the pressure off the cost of living, as the data reveals very clearly, particularly when it comes to petrol prices. When it comes to petrol prices, in the last three years alone, what we have seen is a 1.2 per cent increase on average per year. That compares to a 2.6 per cent increase that occurred under the Labor years.

Reference was also made to housing costs, which I know is a great challenge, particularly for younger people who want to buy into their first home. Since we came to government, housing costs have increased, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, an average of 1.7 per cent each year and, in the last three years, they have increased by 0.6 per cent. That compares to 5.1 per cent under the Labor years. And I know that the Minister for Housing will be able to tell you this: at the last election, I said we were going to take action to help people get into their first home. Under the policies we've introduced since the last election, we have helped 320,000 Australians into home ownership. That's what we took to the election.

The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will resume his seat. The member for Macquarie on a point of order.

Ms Templeman: Mr Speaker, my question was about rentals, not purchasing.

The SPEAKER: Yes, but the question was also about making it harder for working families to make ends meet. The Prime Minister has the call.

Mr MORRISON: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Do you know who's been buying those houses? People who are renting. And we have given them that opportunity through the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme and the Family Home Guarantee, a scheme that is helping single mums buy their first home. That is what our policies are doing. They're giving Australians who have the aspiration to buy a home the opportunity to achieve that—and 320,000 Australians have been helped into home ownership since we were elected three years ago. That's what I call a promise delivered—commitment given, promise delivered. And this government will continue to do that.

With the sound economic management that is being delivered by this government, which has seen Australia through one of the greatest economic challenges since the Great Depression and which has seen Australia coming through this pandemic and the economic recovery underway, Australians can have confidence in the future.