Kiwis, the economy, and outcomes are all going backwards under Labour, and the Budget forecasts confirm the situation is getting worse. We're experiencing the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. Inflation is at a 30-year high, it's expected to be rampant for many years to come, and wages are simply not keeping up with the rising costs and prices that people are seeing everywhere on the supermarket shelves wherever they look. Mortgage costs are going up because of rising interest rates, rent is up $140 per week since this Government took office, food price inflation is the highest in a decade, at 6.4 percent, and petrol, as we all know, is well over $3 a litre. Kiwis are falling behind each week, squeezed by growing costs and a Government that refused to offer anything meaningful in terms of income tax relief, while it carries on with the biggest spend-up in New Zealand's history.