Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Minister Wong, representing the Prime Minister. We are in a rental and housing crisis, but, instead of negotiating with the Greens to freeze and cap rents and end billions of dollars in tax handouts to wealthy property developers, investors and speculators that are preventing people buying their first home, the government is pulling a political stunt by trying to force its housing bill on for a vote today. Minister, given your bill can only, at best, help 0.2 per cent of renters while pushing up house prices for everyone else, why won't you join with the Greens to end negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts that are stopping renters from buying a home?