Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will reportedly promise to lock grocery prices in regional communities where some necessities cost more than double.

Albanese will on Monday reveal caps on 30 products including flour, milk, canned tuna, rice, bread, beef, chicken, eggs, several fruits and vegetable, toilet paper, nappies, toothbrushes and toothpaste and menstrual products.

The ABC reports Albanese will make the promise to keep the prices the same as in the city, while delivering the latest Closing the Gap statement to parliament on Monday.

The prices would be locked in at 76 remote stores.

“We are also tackling issues of access to affordable food in remote communities,” Albanese will say, according to the ABC.

“[And] food insecurity can have serious health impacts, including cardiovascular and kidney disease.”

Federal politicians are returning to Canberra for one of the last sitting weeks before a federal election.

Though Labor is looking to the future in parliament, its latest attack advertisement — launched on the weekend — has turned to the past.

The video criticises Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s “get Australia back on track” campaign mantra by using old footage from previous Liberal governments to highlight broken promises and other political blunders — like former prime minister Tony Abbott biting into a skin-on raw onion as if it were an apple.

“Is that really something we want to see again?” the advertisement says.

But it is unclear if this video or other campaign strategies will be enough to buoy the government’s election chances.

Labor were dealt a significant blow at a state Victorian by-election on Saturday in the west Melbourne electorate of Werribee, once considered a stronghold.

The party suffered a significant swing and while its candidate is ahead by a few hundred votes, the count is ongoing.

-with AAP