Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I might suggest that the speaker before me, the member for Mackellar, runs for council with his obsession with zoning laws. Here in Australia today, it is harder to buy a house than ever before. It's harder to rent than ever before. There are more homeless Australians than ever before. And the fastest-growing cohort of homeless Australians are older women—that is, women over the age of 55. The government's response in this budget has been minimum help and maximum hype. It's something that doesn't just make me angry but makes me so deeply disappointed on behalf of the people in my community who are working, day in and day out, to provide for their families.

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