Anthony Albanese has made his first promise of the official election campaign to outlaw price gouging by supermarkets. With cost-of-living top of mind for most voters Peter Dutton stopped by the energy minister's electorate as he makes the case for more gas to lower power prices.
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00:00Campaign day two and contenders are finding their groove and perfecting their kitchen
00:11table pitch.
00:12I'm trying to keep fit here for the campaign and it's just about to go out the window.
00:17With grocery prices leaving a bitter taste in voters mouths, Labor's latest plan to counter
00:23the cost of weaving is aimed squarely at Coles and Woolworths.
00:28We will make price gouging by Australian supermarkets illegal.
00:32The competition watchdog isn't certain price gouging is going on.
00:37But Labor's talking tough, promising a new task force and new laws by year's end.
00:44Price gouging is when supermarkets are taking the piss.
00:47Well this is the sixth policy review that the Prime Minister's offered in three years
00:52so I would say that the Prime Minister is as weak as water.
00:56Swapping a brewery for a brickworks.
01:00Peter Dutton stopped by Energy Minister Chris Bowen's Western Sydney seat to again highlight
01:06the high cost of electricity.
01:08Each month the gas bill here is in the millions of dollars.
01:12In the United States it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:15His solution is to get more gas into the grid by fast tracking approvals for new projects
01:21and reserving more gas for domestic use.
01:24If you put more supply into the market, the prices will come down.
01:28By how much, the Coalition won't say.
01:32Haunted by his own pledge to bring down power prices before the last election, the Prime
01:37Minister's making no such commitments this time around.
01:40What we have done throughout our term is to provide immediate support when people needed
01:47it.
01:48Dodging questions about whether bills will go up when the latest rebate runs out at Christmas.
01:53What we are providing is $150 relief.
01:57As the campaign enters its first full week, three major opinion polls have Labor and the
02:03Coalition statistically tied around the 50-50 mark, which would most likely see the government
02:09returned.
02:10It's incremental, but at this stage suggests Labor's making up ground after trailing the
02:15Coalition for much of the past year.
02:18Do you think you'll win this one?
02:20Yeah, I do.
02:21Of course we're aiming to form a majority government in our own right and we're confident
02:25about our ability to do so, but if we fall short by a couple of seats we will have a
02:29negotiation with the crossbench.
02:31This election tango still has a way to go.