Leah Blyth (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Stronger Families and Stronger Communities) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today.

Sitting here day after day, during question time, we listen to Labor insult the Australian people—going on about how proud they are of what they're doing in housing, their economic management; the list goes on and on. The fact is that hard-working Australians are doing it tough right now. Living standards are falling, housing budgets are under strain, and businesses are going bust or moving offshore.

Labor have built 17 homes. Let's think about that for a moment—17. We have a housing crisis in Australia, and Labor have caused a housing nightmare for the Australian people. In just three years, this government has presided over the biggest boom in Australia's population growth since the fifties. We've got a significant housing construction collapse. This government seems more interested in looking after its union buddies than it is in looking after hard-working Australians who just want to get into the housing market.

Today during question time—we won't call it 'answer time', because Labor like to sit here and tell us about all the things that they're doing—we got the revelation that Labor have actually been going into the housing market and buying or acquiring homes. They've been going in, competing against first home buyers, competing against everyday Australians and causing an even bigger issue in what is a difficult market to get into.