Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Treasurer, I made 100 in the backyard at Mum's—treehouses, tyre swings and flashing footballs. Does the Australian dream still exist, or does the reality of crippling debt traumatise young couples? Your last three budgets acknowledged that regulatory burdens have driven house prices beyond affordability. Treasurer, why don't you become a federal government, cut the Gordian knot and wreak Cannae-like destruction upon power-drunk state and local government regulators?

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