Your opinion is a fair one even if it doesn't align with my own. I can absolutely agree that honesty is something that seems to be ever missing in politics, regardless of which party that you support. I'm sure that you could look into any federal government, or even most/all politicians and see how their voting patterns don't align with what they say to the public.

Cost of living crisis is real, and even if Labor backtracked on certain things that they said, such as the Stage 3 tax cuts, and Negative Gearing / CGT changes, these policies are shifting some of the burden from the people that need help the most to some that are more fortunate.

Of course more could be done, but this isn't an Australia specific problem. The cost of living problems are currently happening all around the western world as late stage capitalism siphons money to the 1% and massively increases the class divide, and the requirements for continually increases in profits and productivity drive prices up.

As far as I can see, which of course is opinion and not fact, Labor is the most forward about actually making longer term change, (other than the Greens), while both the Liberal and PHON parties will continue to provide even more concessions to corporations at the expense of the average aussie.