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

The shadow Treasurer can't get a question, so he just mouths off the rhetoric. But the fact is that those opposite have opposed all of the measures that we have put forward on housing. They left a migration system that was, in the words of Dr Parkinson, the former head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet under those opposite, is so badly broken. It was a deliberate decision to neglect the system. The Nationals leader has nailed it as well: 'We've got to acknowledge some of the challenges that we left behind … You've got to put your hand up … you've got to be honest with people.' He said, 'We didn't get it right in the fact that that backlog was there ...' Absolutely there was. It was a mess, but we're fixing it. (Time expired)

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