Scams are costing Australian families and businesses $33bn a year, but Scott Morrison’s Consumer Affairs Minister Michael Sukkar literally couldn’t care less.

Tomorrow marks the last day of Scam Awareness Week, the one week of the year where everyone in the community comes together to highlight the massive cost of scams and fraud.

Everyone, that is, except the Morrison Government.

Michael Sukkar has had a week to say something, anything to help families and businesses protect themselves from scams and show Australians he cares about their online safety.

But just like the other 51 weeks of the year, he’s gone to ground on this issue.

No media interviews. No press release. Not even a tweet.

By contrast, Labor has launched our new policy to take the fight up to scammers with a National Anti-Scam Centre.

We’ve committed more funding to help scam victims recover their identity.

We’ve met with victims to hear their stories and raise awareness in vulnerable communities like the elderly.

And we’ve said Anthony Albanese will task a Minister in an incoming Labor Government with direct responsibility for taking on the scammers.

Australians need a Government on their side who’ll take concrete steps to stop them getting hammered by scammers on their phones, emails and social media accounts.

The deafening silence from the Morrison Government on this week of all weeks says everything about how much the Prime Minister cares about the financial security of families and small businesses.