Keith Wolahan (Menzies, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It certainly does. Also, at that time a certain Beatle said they were more popular than Jesus. There's a certain prime minister who likes to think they're more popular than Jesus, but that's certainly not the case. That's the only way you can explain what is happening in this parliament when we have this syllogism that occurs again and again, where the government gets up and says: 'Here is a problem. Here is a crisis.' The word 'crisis' can be overused, but it is not overused in housing. There is a genuine crisis in this country.

Then you say we must all do something about it. And then you present a bill where you've put more work into the title than the actual contents of the bill, and say: 'Well, here's something. Let's do that.' Let's read the title. It's called the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023, 'a bill for an act to establish the Housing Australia Future Fund, and for other purposes'—and for other purposes. That is what the purpose is here. Houses are constructed with materials, with things that cost money—with tiles. But the only tiles that you've turned your mind to are social media tiles, because that's all this is really about.

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