Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Eighty thousand new, high-quality homes, just for renters; thousands of affordable tenancies with caps on rent—access to secure, long-term rentals will change the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians. Men and women; little kids—lives will be changed. How do Senator Bragg and the coalition describe this life-changing nation-building scheme? 'A nightmare,' he says. 'A foreign investor tax cut.' Now the Liberal Party of Australia is opposed to foreign investment. What on Earth is going on? What on Earth is going on in terms of ideological consistency over there if you're opposed to investment in housing, in development, in building projects and in developing Australian construction projects? You have entirely lost your way. The same senator who said in his first speech that our tax system and broader policy settings— (Time expired)