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

These three parties say that they care. They say they care about supply and they say they care about supporting first home buyers. But when it actually comes time to act, what do they do? They say no. They say no to 30,000 social and affordable homes under the Housing Australia Future Fund. They say no to unlocking 80,000 homes through our build-to-rent changes. They say no to helping more Australians get pathways into homeownership.

Let's be clear about what the approach of the right-wing parties would do for housing in this country: build fewer homes, make housing more expensive and make homeownership further away for the people of our great country.

Opposition members interjecting—

They love to give us all a bit of lip in the chamber, but I want to remind them that politics is not about all the politicking that you come in here to do. It's not about all the leadership ructions that you get up to. It's not about One Nation laying landmines. It's about doing the gritty, hard work of making a difference. And there's only one political party in this parliament that's doing that on housing, and that is the Australian Labor Party.

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