Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

It is very courageous to come into this place and ask, ‘What about first home buyers?’ I will tell you what the Commonwealth and the states have been doing about first home buyers. We provide about $7,700 generally across the board—it varies from state to state—to help home buyers out. If you are a newly married couple in South Australia buying your first home for $300,000, do you know what the Labor Party in South Australia takes off you? Eleven thousand three hundred dollars. Sorry; we give with one hand and the Labor government in South Australia takes it straight from them. A single person in Victoria who has saved up to buy their first home at $400,000 is going to have to tighten their belt a little bit because they have got to come up with another $19,660. So do not have the Labor Party come into this place and lecture us about helping out first home buyers. That is what we have done and you have not. (Time expired)