Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a final supplementary question. I refer to Ipsos polling published this morning indicating seven out of 10 Australians describe housing in our capital cities as unaffordable for prospective first home buyers, which is in direct contradiction to Mr Hockey's offensive free advice of a few days ago to just get a better job. Will the government commit to restoring the half a billion dollars of funding it tore out of housing affordability programs, including the National Rental Affordability Scheme, capital works for homelessness services, the first home savers scheme, the National Housing Supply Council, Homelessness Australia, the Community Housing Federation and National Shelter— (Time expired)