House debates

Monday, 2 June 2008

First Home Saver Accounts Bill 2008; Income Tax (First Home Saver Accounts Misuse Tax) Bill 2008; First Home Saver Accounts (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008

Second Reading

1:04 pm

Photo of Sussan LeySussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Housing) Share this | Hansard source

I will quickly conclude my remarks on this part of what I wanted to say. What I really wanted to say is that, as is demonstrated all over this place at the moment—in Senate committees, in conversations that are being had, in admissions by government officers—the measures that the government is proposing on the supply side of the housing affordability equation are unlikely to work. They are untested, unresponsive and unlikely to work. I want to make that point because I am not sure whether those measures are coming before the House in any legislation. I think that, while we have something that is being presented as a reason—

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