John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

That is what we are on about. The Leader of the Opposition can shout as much as he likes. Nothing can alter the fact that if you do not have a reasonable supply of land, if you continue to use the development process to raise revenue rather than governments discharging their responsibilities of providing roadworks, sewerage and guttering, the sorts of basic infrastructure that ought to be provided by government, you are going to continue to shut young homebuyers out of an opportunity of buying their homes. I know the Labor Party is run by inner urban elites, but I would have hoped that they might have had some sensitivity to the young of this country who want to buy a home and who find it necessary to go to the outer periphery of Sydney in order to do so.

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