Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

(New South Wales—) (): When you add up the number of homes that the government is delivering under our housing programs, we are almost at 80,000. As I was saying, the threat is the Liberal senators on the other side of the chamber. They voted against the stimulus package, they voted against those 19,600 homes being constructed, they voted against repairs and maintenance for social housing and they voted against jobs. We know that if they get back into power once again they will look for the easy answers. Last time they Liberal Party were in govern­ment they cut $3.1 billion out of housing and they cut social homes across the country. We know where they are going to go again. They are going to get straight back to cutting housing programs, putting people on the street and increasing homelessness. That is the Liberal Party way of doing things. (Time expired)