Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The roadblocks are there and around there—just stop where Senator Faruqi is. They're the blockers. They're the ones that have voted to block a very sensible Help to Buy housing program that would get 40,000 people out of renting and into homeownership. That was the reform that the Senate voted to delay this week. It is a real shame. I think the thing about the Senate-only week is that people have been able to see the Senate taking part in that block. They've been seeing the very unhealthy alliance, the legislative hugging that's been going on, from the Greens, the National Party and the Liberal Party to block a sensible housing policy—Help to Buy—to get 40,000 people into homeownership. This Senate voted to delay it.