Leon Rebello (McPherson, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This government is failing Australians on housing. Rather than fixing what's holding builders back, the government abolished the Australian Building and Construction Commission, piled on hundreds of new laws and thousands of regulations and are standing by while their mates at the CFMEU drive up costs. This is a prime minister who swore there would be no new taxes, yet all he has delivered are new taxes.

Labor's latest idea is to come after your family home with a spare room tax. Instead of building more homes to fix the housing crisis, Labor wants to tax ones we already have—no new supply, no new solutions, just another desperate grab at your household. This thought bubble was thrown around at their three-day economic roundtable as a bid to fix the housing crisis, and now Labor have refused to rule it out. If you're a young family saving a spare bedroom for a future child, this government's coming after you. If you're a grandparent with spare rooms for the grandkids to visit, this government is coming after you. This is how far they've sunk—a government punishing Australians for their own failures and $43 billion wasted with fewer homes to show for it.

They know they won't meet their housing targets, so they're coming after your household—a tax on the room your kids grew up in, a tax on the roof over your head or a tax on the home you worked for your lifetime to build. The government must rule out this shocking spare room tax.