Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government providing Australians with help to buy a home, and how has this been received? What are the barriers to this help being provided?

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

We are indeed trying to do our best to help Australians to buy a home through our Help to Buy scheme. I'm asked about how it has been received—shared-equity schemes—and indeed the Queensland LNP leader has said this:

We will prioritise building an incentive framework to support home ownership, examining areas including first home-owner grants and shared responsibility schemes.

He's backed it in. Jeremy Rockliff, the Tasmanian Premier, has said, 'innovative programs like the successful MyHome shared-equity program, which helps Tasmanians build or purchase a property,' so he's on board. Dominic Perrottet set up a scheme in New South Wales—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order. The Prime Minister will pause. The member for Deakin is on a warning. He's been interjecting since then. He knows the place. He'll leave the chamber under 94A. I won't have any more interjections, otherwise people will follow the member for Deakin.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to 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.