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

I'm being directly relevant to what I was asked about, which is policies from non-government members raised last week. I know that, after their party room, things are a bit difficult there, but we saw the Manager of Opposition Business just say that he didn't want to go to the roundtable. Well, talk to the bloke next to you because he was there. He got an invite. He was keen. He even came to drinks at the Lodge, and he was very welcome. They also had, of course, a policy that they're trying to implement tonight: higher taxes on the housing and construction industry through abolishing build-to-rent. We want to assist the building of more homes. They want to abolish those concessions.

They also, of course, went through with higher student debts for more than three million Australians—not proceeding with the 20 per cent cut; bigger mortgages for tens of thousands of Australians, because they said they'd abolish Help to Buy; higher power bills, with the abolition of the cheaper home battery scheme; and more expensive training courses, with the abolition of free TAFE. Those opposite actually went to an election arguing for higher taxes and bigger deficits. That is some achievement. (Time expired)

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