Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yesterday in question time, the Prime Minister said it's time to be honest. Let's see in this question time if we're going to get any of that honesty. Is he going to admit that the budget two weeks in is unravelling before his eyes? Is he going to admit that the Treasurer is getting advice now from every Tom, Dick, Harry and Andrew? Is the Prime Minister going to be honest about who he is going to carve out of his small-business tax hit? Is he going to carve out the plumbers, the carpenters, the hairdressers and the farmers, or is he just going to do it to a small select group that he wants to appeal to?

Come on, Prime Minister, you said yesterday it's time to be honest. We know your budget was a budget of broken promises and of large, large tax increases. What we want to know today is: who is going to be hit? It's two weeks into your budget. Who are you carving out? What will be the revenue impacts of carving that out? Will you be upfront and say this budget is collapsing before your eyes, or is it true what people are saying—that you can't lie straight on a yoga mat?

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

I remind members to direct their remarks through the chair.

Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to 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.

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

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