Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Lindsay for her intervention. She is out of touch as well. The Prime Minister is out of touch. The Prime Minister says, ‘Release more land.’ Releasing more land will do nothing. Instead of putting pressure on the states for land releases, the Prime Minister should be putting downward pressure on interest rates, and the member for Lindsay should be telling him to do it. The member for Lindsay, who claims that she is in touch with the people of Western Sydney—unlike the Treasurer, she honestly admits—should say it is time to press the action button.

This Prime Minister is out of touch, his government is out of touch and his Western Sydney MPs are out of touch. The member for Macarthur has experienced what is happening in Western Sydney for himself, yet he has done nothing about it. He has not brought it to the attention of the Prime Minister. He has done nothing to tell the Prime Minister to get interest rates down. The Prime Minister is out of touch, he is out of ideas, he is out of line, he is out of time and, at the next election, he deserves to be out of office.

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