Dorinda Cox (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Wow. Thank you, Senator Bragg, for that performance. I think, when Senator Bragg started his speech today on the second reading of this bill, he talked about assumption. The Labor government are not here to run on assumption. We are here to provide certainty, and our housing policy does exactly that. We're going to give the Australian people the certainty that the coalition did not give while they had nine years of government. I think it's pretty rich to be lectured by the opposition. Shockingly, Senator Bragg, during his contribution this morning, had time to make niggling nips at his former colleagues from when they were in the previous government. He talked about how they thought there's integrity in giving the minister all this unfettered power. Wow. It's amazing that Senator Bragg can sit here and say that about his colleagues—because that is exactly what they're continuing to do. They're continuing to focus on themselves. They're continuing to focus on each other, instead of worrying about the Australian people. That little display of, 'We're worried about the people,' wasn't actually real because he spent more time talking about his colleagues, when they were in government. They should never have made those changes to those bills.

The Australian people don't have a short memory. They do not have a short memory about who was blocking housing in this chamber. It was the teals and the 'no-alition' who ganged up together.