Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

We understand that working- and middle-class families in Australia's suburbs and regions are doing it tough right now. Take, for example, a young family living on the outskirts of Cairns or Nowra, earning $100,000 a year, unable to buy their own home, stuck in the rental market and seeing homeownership fall further out of reach—but in the meantime they look at the people who they think of as their so-called friends, the friends of the regions, being the members of the coalition. What have they done to help families in places like Cairns, Nowra, the Hunter and all those other parts of regional Australia? They've done absolutely nothing. They have voted against our Housing Australia Future Fund, they've voted against rent assistance and now they're trying to prevent people buying— (Time expired)