Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The community I represent is one of the most disadvantaged across the nation. The north already does it tough, and that's without the cost-of-living and housing pressures we're currently seeing, so my constituents look to us in this place for support that they desperately need. And what are they getting in return? They're getting a Liberal-Greens coalition, the LNGP, which is trying its absolute hardest to prevent housing supply in this country. They're getting elected members doing everything they can to shoot down housing reform to keep costs high. They're getting Liberal and Green parties trying to make people suffer so they can become their saviours.

It's absolutely disgraceful that a party like the Greens would do this willingly. They know full well their compromise on the housing bill is unlawful and unworkable, but still the Greens choose to keep playing games with people's lives. They choose to do that because they see every single day that a family in Elizabeth struggles with their rent as an opportunity, because every single time a Salisbury family decides between paying their bills and feeding their kids those in green see it as a win.

They see housing not as an issue to fix but as another bit of paper in the ballot box. Stop hurting my community. Stop playing games and start helping Australians.