Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I know those at home are less interested in the schoolboy debating tricks of those opposite. What those on this side of the House are interested in is what is happening in the real economy in Australia—and the jobs that are being created, and the innovation that is being unleashed, and the support that is going in for small business but particularly in relation to dwelling investment. With dwelling investment we had a 2.2 per cent growth in the December quarter. The predominant component of that growth was actually in the apartment market. And do you know who buys investment apartments predominantly, Mr Speaker? Investors. Investors are the ones who buy apartments. And one of the reasons that they buy apartments is that they can sell them to someone else, on the other side—

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