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

I've been seeking to do so, Madam Deputy Speaker. How on earth could the government now come back with amendments that undermine this 'money-go-round' of a Ponzi scheme—the signature policy of this government—that will not deliver one house before the next election? It will not deliver one house before the next election. Unless I'm entirely wrong—I'll be very generous—you will build 30,000 homes over five years at the same time as you're bringing in 1½ million migrants. Explain that to your electorates. Where will those people live? So we've seen nothing—

The minister's very chirpy. I suggest the minister gets to work on the Help to Buy Scheme—do some work, get to work on the investment mandate that should be here for this parliament to consider today. What have you been doing for months? Clearly not delivering housing policies. No matter how much you try to take credit for our Home Guarantee Scheme, that's a coalition policy, not a Labor government policy. We will not be supporting these amendments to this terrible bill. (Time expired)

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