Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He's very angry, Mr Speaker. I'm asked about the 2022 campaign launch in Perth of the Australian Labor Party. Let me say that there wasn't a lot of anger there. What was there was enormous support. It was the first time for a very long time, if ever—certainly in the modern era—that a major political party chose to launch their election campaign in Perth. And I can think of at least four reasons why that was successful—at least four. When I look across there, at the member for Swan and the member for Pearce and the member for Tangney and the member for Hasluck, I'm reminded of how successful that campaign launch was.

The former government, of course, had prime ministers who couldn't find Perth. They couldn't find Perth over their nine years in office. But what we did as one of the centrepieces of our launch there was, of course, the Help to Buy scheme. What the Help to Buy scheme, based upon successful schemes that have operated in Perth, enables them to do—

Opposition members interjecting—

I'm asked about the housing policy; I'm asked about the 2022 campaign—

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