Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Housing) Share this | Hansard source

Let me come to the question of housing taxation. What a day to ask about housing taxation when our party has lowered taxes on new build-to-rent locations and you are in the Senate today trying to raise taxes on new housing in our country! I wish I could say that I was surprised by the unbelievable incompetence. I do not know what the opposition are doing on housing this term or any other. But what I would remind the House is that the very last people that Australians should listen to when it comes to housing policy are those who sit opposite. Remember that, for almost a decade, they sat on this treasury bench and did nothing about a housing crisis which was building before their very eyes. They then spent three years being housing hypocrites, complaining about things going wrong in housing and then coming into the parliament and voting against measures that would fix the problem. Here they are now, asking ridiculous and nonsensical questions about policies that don't even exist. Get a clue, people.

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