Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Higgins, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's pretty clear that we don't see eye to eye with the Greens political party on housing. You see, we've broken their business model by acting on climate. From controls on heavy emitters to fuel standards, EVs, home electrification, green hydrogen and climate diplomacy, we are getting on with it. So the Greens party have made housing their next battleground.

In choking supply by blocking the Housing Australia Future Fund and developments in their own electorates, they are effectively engineering this rental crisis for their own political ends. It's a masterclass in self-serving political opportunism, but the ramifications are far-reaching. Rents stay high, feeding into inflation, which hurts those very people they claim to represent.

But the real collateral is 122,000 homeless Australians, the women and kids fleeing domestic violence, our veterans, our First Peoples, and the key workers that our businesses and our health system desperately need.

We need to build more homes, and a party that stands in the way of that purpose is no friend to renters. There is a moral dissonance in the Greens political party, a mismatch between their words and their deeds, but I know that the Greens' supporters are morally tuned towards wanting a fairer society where everyone has access to a home. I say to the Greens party: for the sake of your own base and for every Australian, pass this bill. (Time expired)

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded.