Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

If he's a vegan, he won't be eating that bacon, will he? Then he goes to the laundry and gets his crisply ironed, white shirt and starts to prepare for his day in a calm and ordered fashion, knowing that everything's in order and the only thing he has to worry about is why he put this bill, the Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024, forward in this house.

Down road, in a car park, Josie wakes up in her car. It's cold. It's damp. She's pretty stressed. She wriggles out of her sleeping bag and looks at the only thing that's left on the seat of the car for her to eat: some dry crackers. She shakes out her wrinkled clothes, looks across at her flat phone and wonders what on earth she is going to do today. She is stressed. Josie doesn't care who is going to build the housing of the future. Josie just wants it built so that she can find somewhere to live. She doesn't hate unions, she doesn't hate the CFMEU and she doesn't hate Cbus, but she does hate not being able to find a home.

What we're seeing here is just another attempt, in another year, to do nothing to address the housing crisis that we have in this country. While we on this side, the Labor government, are focused on building more homes and tackling the housing crisis, the opposition are coming into this, the second week of the 48th Parliament, with more and more of this ideological rubbish. Senator Bragg and his party are the same people who stood in this chamber, blocking every single housing solution that we brought in here. They blocked Labor's Help to Buy program, stopping 40,000 Australians from owning their own homes; they blocked our build-to-rent laws, stopping 80,000 renters; and they blocked the Housing Australia Future Fund, a $10 billion program that is directly supporting the delivery of tens of thousands of social and affordable homes, the kinds of homes that Josie needs so that she doesn't have to sleep in her car. So you've got to ask the question: is this bill really about housing, or is it about the opposition's ideological stand against unions, or is it about the opposition's pathological hatred of the CFMEU, or is it about the opposition's distaste for working people having a say in their own future—