Cameron Caldwell (Fadden, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Australians deserve a government that will facilitate housing construction and homeownership. Homeownership is quintessentially Australian. It provides self-determination and traditionally has been the first step in a secure financial future. Homeownership is something that we on the coalition side of the House strongly believe in. Under this Labor government the great Australian dream is turning into a nightmare.

I note the recent resignation of the chair of Housing Australia last week, and I wish her well. But her departure confirms what we've been warning for months: Labor has presided over chaos, waste and dysfunction at Housing Australia. The departure of the chair raises more questions than the number of houses built by this Labor government. Under this minister, the agency charged with building homes has become a bureaucracy that builds excuses. Three weeks ago we exposed, in Senate estimates, a secret $24,000 governance report into wide-ranging issues at Housing Australia. The government is still hiding it. Taxpayers deserve transparency. Will the minister answer this: what did the governance report find, and when will you release it?

Labor is spending record sums of money to deliver fewer homes than the previous coalition government. Their aspirational target of 1.2 million homes is nothing more than a dream.

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