Nita Green (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very pleased in the very short time that I have to finish my contribution by again explaining to those watching that what we have seen in this chamber every single day this week is the Greens political party teaming up with the Liberal Party, the National Party and, today, One Nation to block and filibuster this bill to make sure that we don't vote on affordable and social housing. This is a bill that will provide 30,000 homes, affordable and social housing, something that we know people desperately need. This is what we have seen every single day this week—teaming up to stop this bill with the Liberal and National parties. That's what we've seen from the Greens.

The only thing, in continuing to play these political games, that can be said about the Greens political party is that they have come in here and are betraying the very real people that they supposedly come here to represent, because that is the only explanation of what they are doing and the behaviour they are displaying in this chamber and throughout this house in blocking this important legislation. In doing so, they are sitting with the very people who made sure that for over a decade we had no investment in affordable and social housing.

It is clear where they stand. It is clear that the Greens party want to make sure that in sitting with the Liberal and National parties we block this bill. But in doing that, they are also standing in the way of 30,000 affordable and social homes, funding for domestic violence homes, funding for families that are leaving domestic violence, $100 million of Indigenous remote housing repairs, and housing for veterans. Those are the people that the Greens Party are turning their backs on, and they're choosing to make sure that this is an issue where it is very clear where the Labor Party stands. They don't want to even go to a vote on this bill. (Time expired)