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

I look forward to your contribution, Mr Pasin. When it comes to housing, those opposite have opposed all of the initiatives. It doesn't matter where it is, whether it be increased support for public housing or increased support for build-to-rent, for private rentals, or whether it be increased home ownership through the Help to Buy scheme, they have opposed all of that as well.

Then they had the hide on this morning's radio—this is a mob that left us with a $78 billion deficit that we turned into a $22 billion surplus. The following year, they left us with a $56 billion forecast deficit that we turned into a $15 billion surplus. This year, we have almost halved the deficit that they forecast. And those opposite had the hide this morning out there on their TV roundups to speak about a stronger economy and to speak about fiscal policy. They are delulu with no solulu. They are completely delusional when it comes to that. And then they go and sledge young women out there who Australians are listening to. You just keep sledging away. You just stay in touch with the narrow base that you have, because that is what this bloke has spent three years doing—shifting the Liberal Party further and further to the right.

There are four moderates up there. They sit in the second row—the members for Menzies and Flinders and Bass and Bradfield on the way out. And that's it. They get further and further out towards the door as more and more the geniuses from the LNP right occupy the front benches over here. They are more and more conservative, more and more right wing and more and more divisive. They have no solutions for the Australian people. They come before this parliament and say that they oppose tax cuts yet again for Australians. Mind you, it is what they said last time they would do, just before they rolled over and then supported it and then pretended that none of that ever happened. Today they will have an opportunity. Today they will have to vote on whether they support Australians earning more and keeping more of what they earn, which is what our agenda is. I look forward to the contributions.

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