Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday the Minister for Social Services gave an answer to a question about the National Rental Affordability Scheme. In that he made a number of claims about the National Rental Affordability Scheme and my stewardship of that scheme when I was the housing minister. The first claim was that this scheme, which is taxpayer subsidised to provide low-rental dwellings for the low-paid workers of Australia, in this particular case had not been used to house low-income workers of Australia but had been used for up to 1,500 international students. In fact, on the minister's own figures fewer than eight per cent of tenants are overseas students; the other 92 per cent are low-income workers, sole parents, pensioners, families, local students and the unemployed.

The minister's second claim is—

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