Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

I would remind the senator that it was this government that introduced the First Home Owners Scheme, which has assisted over 865,000 Australians to purchase their first home since 1 July 2000, with almost $6.5 billion worth of grants being distributed to date. That is one of our schemes, which we introduced to help first homebuyers, and if she is concerned about affordability then she ought to talk to Labor state governments about their land release policies, their ridiculously high stamp duties and their outrageous tax burden on first homebuyers through their own state tax systems. Labor senators have it within their power to talk to their state counterparts about their outrageous policies on this issue.