Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm proud to be a part of a budget that is building homes for Australians and supporting Australians to buy their own home. In fact, over 2,000 people in my electorate of Macnamara have bought their first home thanks to our five per cent deposit scheme. We've also been going around the country looking at thousands of homes that are being built under the Housing Australia Future Fund. It's quite telling that the Leader of the Opposition had this to say on budget night:

We will scrap Labor's housing bureaucracy—the ineffective Housing Australia Future Fund …

That would leave thousands of Australians without a home and have a devastating impact across our community housing sector. But, of course, Senator Bragg said this:

They shouldn't proceed with this tax … I would increase it. I wouldn't reduce it.

He was talking about the capital gains tax discount. Those opposite want to increase support for investors to buy multiple homes, and they want to take away support for Australians and essential workers who need their first home and a safe place to live. We are builders, and they are blockers. We share opportunity, and they share misinformation. We lay bricks, and they lay blame. We're interested in building homes for Australians, and they spend each and every day trying to compete with One Nation in a race to the gutter. We have a job to do, and we're getting on with it for Australians, who deserve it.

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