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

Here we have it again. They come in here and they say they care about cost of living, and then they vote against tax cuts. They now come in here and criticise the HAFF when they voted against it and voted to delay it, and now they say, 'How many houses have you built?' after they spent a year and a half blocking the passage of that bill that set up the Housing Australia Future Fund. Round 1 is under negotiation now, which is actually, considering the time the Senate delayed the passage of this bill—and we never got it through with your support anyway. We had to completely bypass you because you continued to oppose it. You say you're going to abolish it. That's your policy, and now you're complaining that it hasn't built enough houses. Well, I'll tell you what: if you get into government, there will be thousands fewer houses than what the HAFF is actually building right now, and you need to explain that.