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

I joined the Labor Party when I was at school because could never have afforded to join the Greens! Let me just make that point about those opposite there. I joined the party of working-class people who aspired to a better opportunity and a better life for their children, and that is what we do.

We also want to make sure that we have serious housing policy. The policies put forward by those in the Greens political party have been considered by every single state and territory government, every economist and everyone in the property sector, that what they will do is make it harder for renters and not easier. Harder for renters, not easier, which is why we're working on the issue of supply. And that's why, eventually, the Greens saw the light, to your credit, and voted for the Housing Australia Future Fund. Having held up a fund—

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