SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 22 May 2026 LABOR’S ZERO MINING INVESTMENT OUTLOOK A WARNING SIGN FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIAN JOBS Mining investment forecasts are heading in the wrong direction under Labor— and Western Australia cannot afford the…
The Reserve Bank’s latest decision to lift the cash rate by another 0.25 percentage points will heap further financial pressure on Australian families already struggling under the weight of rising mortgage repayments, persistent inflation and higher living costs.
SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 8 May 2026 SURVEY SHOWS PERTH COSTS RISING FASTER THAN WAGES Perth families are being hit hardest by Australia’s cost-of-living crisis, with consumer prices rising 27 per cent over the past five…
SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 24 April 2026 PERTH YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RISING AS COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS RAGES New analysis of data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed a rise in youth unemployment across Western Australia, with…
New analysis commissioned by Senator Dean Smith from the Parliamentary Library based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed a worrying rise in youth unemployment across Western Australia, with young people in Perth increasingly struggling to find work as cost-of-living pressures intensify under Labor.
Australians are being pushed to the brink under Labor, with new data from OzHarvest revealing the nation’s cost-of-living crisis has deteriorated into a full-blown “cost-of-surviving” crisis.
New ABS Lending Indicators data for the December quarter 2025 has exposed the growing cost of Labor’s housing failure, with average home loan sizes recording their largest increase in more than a decade. Instead of delivering affordable homes, the Albanese Labor Government has delivered record debt. The ABS figures show that while the number of…
SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 2 April 2026 RECORD MOTOR VEHICLE GROWTH LEAVES WESTERN AUSTRALIANS MORE EXPOSED TO FUEL SHORTAGES THIS EASTER A surging population means Western Australia has experienced the fastest acceleration in the number of…
SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 April 2026 WA COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS DEEPENS AS HOUSEHOLDS AND BUSINESSES HIT BREAKING POINT Western Australians were already under pressure before the Middle East conflict with new data showing the crisis is…
SENATOR DEAN SMITH SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE SHADOW TREASURER SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR THE COST OF LIVING LIBERAL SENATOR FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA 31 March 2026 WA COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS DEEPENS AS HOUSEHOLDS AND BUSINESSES HIT BREAKING POINT Cost of living pressures under the Albanese Government are driving growing economic anxiety in WA. The latest CCIWA…
