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

No, I took it in calmly, and I thought, ‘I’ll bet that’s a selective grab.’ Of course, on 6PR, he qualified his comments. He said, ‘Well, I’m not suggesting there’s going to be open slather.’ Of course there is not. Obviously, if you decided to hurl vast tracts of land onto the market, of course it would have an impact. Nobody is arguing that. What I have in mind are modest proposals—and they were modest proposals; they came from the Australian Labor Party, actually. That is why I know they are modest! This is what Jenny Macklin had to say—and this was when they were interested in young home buyers:

Let’s also work with State Governments to make sure that we get adequate land release—

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