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

The opposition should be well aware that, in fact, the parliament is looking into the capital gains tax discount. Why are they looking into it? In November last year, at a time when the Liberals and the Nationals were still together, they combined with the Greens—the old firm got together; the old 'no-alition' got together—and they established a select committee in the other place to look at the operation of the capital gains tax discount. There it was—the Liberals, the Nationals and the Greens. Those were the days. Those were the days of unity.

And it gets worse! The shadow minister for housing, Senator Bragg—guess what? He's on the committee! He's on the committee, as is Senator Sharma. I know there are lots of people over there not talking to each other at the moment, but Senator Bragg is not one of them. He's always talking, and, in between talking about Days of Our Lives, he went on to talk about this committee. I assume he had authorisation from the Leader of the Opposition before they set up a committee to look at all of this. So, whilst what we've been doing is getting on with supply through the Housing Australia Future Fund—

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