Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very happy to withdraw and to assure Senator Henderson—she may not have heard—that I was simply indicating that she will be leading the two-minute contributions that we are shortly to experience.

The victims of this hyperpartisanship are not the government or the legislation; it's ordinary Australians. In terms of well-paid senators not doing their job, the victims are nurses on $90,000 a year, teachers, truck drivers and tradies. When they are trying to seek equity to purchase their own home and can't get there—because of the Australian Greens political party, the One Nation party, some members of the crossbench and the Liberal and National parties, which have thoroughly lost their way—who should they blame? They should blame Mr Dutton and Mr Littleproud, whose venal political partisanship leads them to this negative conclusion all of the time. They should blame Mr Bandt and the Greens political party, who've been led by Mr Chandler-Mather into this political cul-de-sac. It has caused immense damage to ordinary Australian families who just want to get a go on the real estate ladder.