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

The package makes it very clear in the budget papers that there will be more houses, not less, as a result of the things that are in the budget. That's on top of the measures that we have spent four years implementing, that are now rolling out in spite of those opposite doing everything they could to block the Housing Australia Future Fund, everything they could to block build-to-rent, everything they could to block Help to Buy—everything they could to block all of the measures that we have put in place to help build supply.

One of the things that we have done is not just housing, but, of course, when it comes to helping people, which goes to the question, we have the reforms that are in the budget about Medicare and about making sure that cheaper medicines are available and that there's more bulk-billing and record funding for hospitals.

Our budget helps people under pressure right now. We've had five separate tranches now of tax reform, of tax relief. We're cutting people's taxes because we want people to earn more and keep more of what they earn. Those opposite have never ever in their history put in a submission to the Fair Work Commission saying there should be an increase in real wages. They opposed our tax cuts, and I assume they'll oppose— (Time expired)

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