Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Can I welcome the Speaker to our parliament. We'll try and be polite now, sir. Senator Bragg, we fundamentally don't agree with the proposition you've put forward—that somehow it is a bad thing to assist first home buyers through this deposit scheme. Of course, that is not the only thing the government is doing. The government also recognises the importance of increasing supply, which is why we have a very ambitious addition to housing supply as part of our policies.