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

Yes, that's right—the same person who said civility is not a sign of weakness. But, anyway, we'll deal with that. After three years in the job, this bloke has had three ideas: (1) $10 billion to fund long lunches for business, (2) $600 billion to pay for nuclear reactors, and (3) cuts to everything else to pay for them. They are the only three ideas that he has had. And then he comes along here and says, 'Tell us what you won't do.' He doesn't come along here and ask about what we are doing on housing, about the build-to-rent scheme. I note that Chris Minns was in my electorate yesterday—500 new homes in Camperdown, just down the road from where I grew up, Pyrmont Bridge Road and Parramatta Road. Affordable housing for essential workers, no doubt taking advantage of the build-to-rent scheme that was passed by the Senate last December.

It's just like how he doesn't ask about the Housing Australia Future Fund. That's so important—building social and affordable homes for people, providing additional housing for women and children escaping domestic violence, providing additional housing for Indigenous communities. It's just like how he doesn't ask us about Help to Buy or about all those tens of thousands of Australians who've been helped into homeownership as a result of what we have put in place. The Help to Buy scheme is something that was opposed as hostile by those opposite. They know what they're against; they don't know what they're for. That is why they will be rejected. That is why they are floundering not as an alternative government but as this thought bubble that has to find $600 billion to pay for its nuclear reactors.

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