Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister rule out any changes to the tax treatment of the owner occupied family home and to negative gearing?

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

Order! The Leader of the Opposition. The question has been asked.

Order! The Treasurer and the Leader of the Opposition are going to cease interjecting before we have the answer—

Honourable members interjecting—

Order! When everyone ceases interjecting, the Prime Minister will have the call.

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

I'll wait for the anger and arrogance to subside from those opposite. As the Treasurer has just said—

And there it is again, Mr Speaker.

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

The Leader of the Opposition, we're not going to be yelling across the chamber. We're just going to take the temperature down. We're going to listen to one another and show each other respect. The Prime Minister has the call.

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

Thanks very much, Mr Speaker. I'm asked now, in this ever-growing list of fishing expeditions—and it should perhaps go to the minister for agriculture and fisheries, this question, so I might ask Minister Collins to add to this answer—

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

Order! The Prime Minister will return to the question.

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

I'm actually asked about a new element now. Apparently now we're going after the family home.

Government members interjecting—

We're going after the family home! According to them, we're going to go in, and there'll be a knock on the door and we'll go: 'We're the government. We're here to take your home from you. We're going to nationalise the home.' The only political party that I've seen talk about mass nationalisation is that of those opposite, who want to nationalise the energy network. Then they want to intervene in the markets and nationalise the supermarkets when they're forced to sell. The family home—

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

The Prime Minister was mid-sentence talking about the family home, but I'll take the point of order from the member for Hume.

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Relevance.

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

Yes. You're entitled to take one.

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It was a very straightforward question. It wasn't about the opposition. It was about the government's proposal—their secret tax on the family home.

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

The member for Hume is entitled to raise his point of order. The Prime Minister has had a preamble. He was mentioning the family home mid-sentence. I'm going to invite him back to the question.

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

Mr Speaker, he's delusional, because he speaks about a secret plan. If it's secret, why are they asking about it? It seems to me there's a gap there, Mr Speaker. There's a gap, because the family home is of course—

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

Order! The member for Hume! I appreciate you've asked the question.

Order! We're just going to cease interjecting for the remainder of the answer. Just to assist the House, the Prime Minister can return to the question.

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

We have all of our tax policies out there, and all of the ones that they want to talk about are things that we are not doing. We're talking about what we are doing, some of which they are blocking over in the other chamber, whether it's housing policy or whether it's tax policy. The idea—this nonsense that they carry on with—that we're—

Have you got Tourette's or something? You sit there, 'babble, babble, babble'—

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

Order!

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

I withdraw, Mr Speaker. I withdraw and apologise. Mr Speaker, they sit there and interject nonstop. The truth is that we regard, as does every Australian, the family home as being sacrosanct.

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

The member for McEwen is warned.

Honourable members interjecting—

Order! When the House comes to order I'll just remind the chamber that the member for O'Connor and the member for McEwen are on warnings.