Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) and (2) together:

(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 6), omit the table item.

(2) Schedule 4, page 22 (line 1) to page 30 (line 13), omit the Schedule.

We support this bill. We are seeking to make one change consistent with our opposition to the Housing Australia Future Fund, which is the removal of schedule 4. We support the bill, other than schedule 4, because we obviously support the changes that relate to the recommendations that came out of the review that was undertaken in the term of the former coalition government. Some sensible changes were recommended as part of that review and there are some contained in the bill. We are very happy to support the renaming of the National Housing Finance Investment Corporation to Housing Australia. It would be fairly low on the list of priorities, I would have thought, to be renaming it but it is not something we're going to stand on the way of. We won't be dividing on this but, consistent with our opposition to the Housing Australia Future Fund, we seek to remove schedule 4.

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