David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Minister. You dodged my question on why you don't have a national housing and homelessness plan. You committed to one. You've been doing ongoing consultation for months and months. It seems pretty convenient that we're in the last sitting week of the term, and there's still no plan, yet you're willing to cook up other legislation in a matter of weeks and ram it through this place. But on something so fundamental as housing and on having a plan to get us out of this hole that is thanks to the duopoly, thanks to the major parties—absolutely, the coalition have to take a lot of the blame for basically vacating this space, cooking up HomeBuilder, overcooking the building market. Now, under Labor, we've seen approvals go off an absolute cliff. Where is the plan? Why are you averse to putting one forward?