Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Melbourne for his question. I note that the member for Melbourne and the Greens political party say that this is a stumbling block for them voting for the Housing Australia Future Fund, which would deliver 30,000 additional public and affordable housing units, including 4,000 that are reserved for women and children escaping domestic violence, including funding that would deliver assistance for veterans at risk of homelessness and including Indigenous housing. They say that that's the case, but the truth is that every single state and territory leader has said that they do not support a rent freeze—every single one. In the ACT, the only jurisdiction in which there is the measure that the member referred to, it is for inflation plus 10 per cent. That is over just a one-year period.

The fact is that we are organising with the states and territories work on renters' rights and will continue to do so constructively. But I say to the member for Melbourne that there is legislation before this parliament, now—

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