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

Sometimes the truth hurts, Deputy President, and it cuts very deep in this chamber, does it not, especially when it's true. It's like trying to sneak your new romance in the back door, because your base is going to find out you all stood together in '28. Well, we can't wait for that to happen, because your sneaky little new squeeze in the 'noalition' is continuing. Senator Bragg's contribution also went to all the other things this chamber is working on. FOI—you know why? Because they didn't even have a housing minister in nine years of government.

Let's get to the bill, because that's actually what I'm on my feet for. I don't want to spend too much time giving rise to Senator Bragg. This bill is cynical. It's dangerous. It's utterly self-serving. The bill would absolutely make it harder for first home buyers to get into the market, harder for working families to find secure housing and harder for our nation to build the homes that we desperately need. I want to be really clear that what Senator Bragg and those opposite are really up to is not about accountability. It's not about transparency, and it's certainly not about oversight. This is about grubby politics—pure, opportunistic, obstructive politics.

As I've said, Senator Henderson—

Thank you for those interjections. I'm sure the Deputy President will—