Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition has been interjecting once again about the ladder, and I'll say once again to the Leader of the Opposition that not everybody fails upwards up the ladder like the Leader of the Opposition does. Not everybody starts their life at the top of the ladder. There's not much point in a ladder if the first few rungs are missing. That's the case when it comes to the housing market in this country. We are making the housing market fairer for first home buyers. We are proud to be doing that. No amount of increasingly desperate, increasingly pathetic questions from those opposite will deter us.

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