Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Higgins, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

There are a group who are doing worse than renters, except you can't doorknock them because they don't have a door. They live among us, unable to participate fully because they don't have the warmth of a home. To the 122,000 Australians experiencing homelessness, it is an indulgence to hear others campaign on housing. Survival dominates their days, their next meal, a safe place to sleep, or caring for their pets. These people are easy for minor parties to overlook because they have no voice. Instead, they depend upon community housing champions and a Labor government to fight for them. While this catastrophe grows, the Greens political party, with their new besties, the Liberals and One Nation, reject pleas from housing providers who are shovel-ready, waiting for the Housing Australia Future Fund to be passed.

According to the Greens, it is better to have 100 per cent of nothing than a secure pipeline of housing. Try telling that to the Australian men and women, children, veterans, First Nations and youth experiencing homelessness. I may not have tent cities in Higgins, but I certainly do have homeless Australians, outside supermarkets and on footpaths as luxury cars go by. I can assure you that the occupants of those cars expect the Greens and the Liberals to find a way rather than stand in the way.

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