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

Everybody deserves a decent home. What Senator Bragg said in his first speech was:

Our tax system and broader policy settings must encourage foreign investment …

He meant it then; he doesn't mean it now. It's a symbol of the sort of inconsistency and hyperpartisanship of this show.

We have got straight to work from our first term in government. We took the Commonwealth from being a negligent bystander under the previous government to a government with the boldest and most ambitious housing program since the Second World War. In three years, we've invested $43 billion in housing, compared to just $5 billion in the previous long, turgid decade of negligence and absolute disengagement from building new homes for Australians.