Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This was a government that could do lots of things. It could put in a carbon tax, it could put in a mining tax, it could stop the live cattle trade, it could start the people-smuggling trade. But one thing it could not do was enforce the laws against non-resident foreigners purchasing existing residential property.

Ms Owens interjecting—

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