Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Payne is quoting from a report from the Housing Industry Association from 2008. We totally reject the figures they have put forward. It is impossible for any organisation to come up with those sorts of figures given that there has been no price set on carbon. There are no details yet in terms of household assistance, and that was not taken into account in any way by the Housing Industry Association. We know that the coalition have one policy here—they have a scare campaign. That is it. It would have been nice if Senator Payne and coalition senators, being so concerned about social housing, had voted for the stimulus—19,300 homes and 80,000 repair and maintenance jobs on homes. The coalition rejected that. (Time expired)