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

Of course it's in the national interest for Australians to have an opportunity to buy a home, for first home buyers to have the opportunity to buy a home and for all of the elements of our policy to be engaged. I've listened to the sneering from those opposite about the five per cent home deposit. I have seen the sneering about renters, too. There is some consistency, isn't there, with what a former leader of the Liberal Party said about renters in Australia? John Hewson said, 'You can always tell the renters' houses because they are less tidy out the front.' That attitude is clearly consistent with Senator Bragg's sneering at renters, sneering at first home buyers and sneering at the efforts of this government to mobilise the Australian construction sector and the states and territories to build more homes for Australians at an affordable level. (Time expired)