Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's a tough life being Queensland housing minister Mick de Brenni—all that finger pointing you've got to do! I found eight people living in permanent tenting in my city. Every Australian deserves to have a roof over their head, and every state housing department should be providing it. Listen to the Labor explanation for homelessness: they call upon me and the Prime Minister to make state public housing more affordable. Mick de Brenni blamed the Commonwealth for unfair tax breaks, accused the Commonwealth of having no plan for Queensland housing and said the cuts to Aboriginal housing had a flow-on impact to inner-city Brisbane. Mick de Brenni, the housing minister in Queensland, cancelled the $800 million Logan renewal initiative—2½ thousand homes for people like Kerrin that I met with. Young men in Queensland wait seven years for a roof over their heads—they live in a tent and have their cat confiscated—and the state bureaucrats can't even manage a referral to a state-federal funded housing provider like Micah. There is no referral for Kerrin, no case officer at state housing, and Mick de Brenni, so busy over cappuccinos, is pointing the finger at Canberra.

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