House debates
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Questions without Notice
Housing
2:59 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The former premier Perrottet said this:
Key workers, single parents and older singles will be able to have the security of homeownership … on the government's equity share in a property.
He was certainly on board. But not everyone is on board. Those opposite have a policy where they speak about having super for homes. But it has a bit of history. The former prime minister Turnbull said this:
My own view is that would be a thoroughly bad idea. It's not what the superannuation system is designed to achieve.
I know those opposite haven't always agreed with Malcolm, but, on this occasion, they did. The current Leader of the Liberal Party said this:
I think Malcolm Turnbull has got it right. It's not good policy and I agree with him … you don't want to fuel the prices.
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said this:
Young people need their super for retirement, not to try to take pressure off an urban housing bubble …
The late shadow minister, the former member for Deakin, who has left us, said this:
… inevitably all you do is push up housing prices …
But it's not just them, of course, because the Greens political party are also blocking this. The member for Griffith said on Insiders:
We have enough homes for people to live in …
They don't need any of that! But we went back to their 2022 election platform, and it says this:
This is why the Greens will establish a Shared Equity Ownership Scheme …
That's notwithstanding the grandness in that he then went on to say that you shouldn't have to win a lottery to secure a home. But his own website says this—wait for this one:
An example of the Greens vision for housing in Brisbane … 2,000 homes available to any Brisbane resident and assigned by lottery, rented out at below-market rent.
You don't need a lottery; you just need good policy. On that note, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.
No comments