Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the housing minister calling out. This is a dirty deal done not cheap with the Greens. The last time I saw a deal like this was when the Gillard government was in power, and we saw a deal struck with the Greens—Bob Brown was the leader then—and we all remember how that ended up. The situation is this: this is a deal done with the Greens to appease inner-city voters. It's not done to try to get people into homes. It's not done with social housing policy in mind. It's done because they're worried about what the Greens might be doing to their votes in inner-city electorates, and what a shame that is.

The UNSW put out a media release on 29 June this year talking about the number of construction companies collapsing—collapsing under the weight of not being able to find labour, collapsing under the weight of just not being able to make ends meet. Then we have a Victorian Labor government which wants to just shut down the timber industry. We've got a Victorian Labor government which doesn't want to have—

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