Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

On top of that, to add insult to injury, local infrastructure costs on a house can add another 21.5 to 34.3 per cent to the cost of the house. These are fair dinkum ways under which you can raise the cost of houses. It is totally unnecessary. We have a further and continued imposition on the cost and affordability of housing in this country. It was the state stamp duties and the state land taxes that made up $12 billion in 2004-05—$12 billion that Labor decided to take from Australian families as Labor’s housing affordability tax.