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

Where do you begin—seriously? That question was based upon complete fantasy. I stood up with Roger Cook last week at a 29-storey building that we are building in Perth—new housing, new social housing, new affordable housing for essential workers, new private rentals and new homeownership waiting as part of our $47 billion Homes for Australia Plan. The Premier of WA, just like the Premier of New South Wales and all of our members here who went through all of our positions, including of course our cabinet secretary and all our caucus—you know what the people on this side have to say in the Labor caucus? What they say to me is how proud they are that we are fighting for values that matter, that we are not prepared to leave the next generation behind. They say it would be easier to just stay still and leave it for someone else to fix the problem. Because every single one of my members—

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