Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

That's a great question, Senator Green. As you know, safe and affordable housing is vital, not only to protect our way of life but for the continued economic prosperity of our regional areas.

But, unfortunately, it appears that there is a new alliance in Australian politics, a new coalition that continues to stand in the way of access to housing for Australians. All of a sudden, Senator McKim is looking very guilty. The coalition of the unwilling between the National Party, the Liberal Party and the Greens political party stands like a dam wall to block every effort the Albanese government makes to build new homes. We saw it first with the Housing Australia Future Fund, where the Greens teamed up with the LNP for months to delay $10 billion of housing investment until they were shamed into supporting it. Last week we saw it again when the government tried to move ahead with our Help to Buy scheme. What did the coalition of the unwilling between the Liberals, the Nationals and the Greens do? They pushed it off to April. When it comes to housing, Labor offers help to buy and the coalition of the unwilling just says, 'Goodbye.' (Time expired)