Tyron Whitten (WA, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to support Senator Roberts' matter of urgency, because the Albanese Labor government has utterly betrayed the next generation of Australians. For the record, we don't blame migrants. We don't blame migrants. I think there is a comprehension problem in here. We blame the people in here. This is the problem, not the migrants. We are not blaming migrants.

The Albanese Labor government has betrayed the young families who dream of stability, the students who hope one day to put down roots, and the hardworking Australians, and migrants, who want nothing more radical than a chance to buy a modest home in the country they love. Young people now stare down the barrel of million-dollar house prices, mortgage repayments that swallow half their wage and a future where home ownership has become a distant and almost abstract dream—something spoken about, but rarely achieved. What used to be the great Australian dream has become a luxury available only to the wealthy, the lucky or a foreign investor.

In Perth the situation has become downright desperate. Rents are up more than 50 per cent in just five years. House prices have risen by 8.8 per cent, year to date. Vacancy rates scrape along at 0.7 per cent. At a single rental inspection, 92 desperate locals turned up—families, pensioners, students, young workers, migrants. People who once would have had reasonable options are now competing like it's the hunger games.

This is not normal or health, and it's clearly not inevitable, yet Labor pours petrol on the fire, with record mass immigration. We now have 4.7 million noncitizens competing for the same limited pool of homes, the same rental listings and the same public services. While Australians struggle, Labor hands out massive tax breaks to foreign corporate giants like BlackRock through the so-called build-to-rent scheme, an arrangement that sounds helpful but in practice delivers a stable stream of profits to offshore landlords while leaving ordinary Australians further behind.

Worse still, Labor's reckless five per cent deposit scheme encourages young buyers to borrow 95 per cent of an already inflated price. Does that sound familiar? This saddles them with monstrous mortgages, six to eight times their income—double or more what their parents ever faced. It is not help; it is a debt sentence. It locks young workers into decades of financial servitude simply for wanting a roof over their head. Meanwhile, foreign buyers continue snapping up our homes with near impunity. Red tape strangles our tradies and builders, and supply cannot possibly keep up. This is market sabotage, and Australians are paying the price. In Western Australia, where I come from, families scramble for shelter in a market with just 0.7 per cent vacancy. Rents have exploded, more than 50 per cent in five years, adding thousands to the bills that working families can barely afford.

Today, right on cue, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the complete monthly CPI for October 2025. Annual inflation has climbed to 3.8 per cent, up from 3.6 per cent in September and higher than the market expected. Any lingering hope of early interest rate relief has just been crushed. The single biggest driver is housing, up a staggering 5.9 per cent this year. This is a direct and predictable result of Labor's demand-side madness. This is year 6 maths—supply and demand.

How can this government claim to care about cost-of-living pressures when its own policies are the biggest contributor to the inflation spike now hitting every Australian household? They create the problem and then feign sympathy for those suffering under it. Labor's arrogance knows no bounds. They prioritise global agendas and corporate mates over the aspirations of ordinary Australians. A two-year ban on some foreign home purchases is a bandaid on a gaping wound. Red tape burdens our tradies under mountains of compliance, halting construction and worsening the very shortages Labor pretends don't exist. We need homes built, not more paperwork.

Mass immigration at this pace is not sustainable. It outpaces our ability to house, educate and employ people. The people coming here—the immigrants—also need somewhere to live. I'm not sure how people in this place don't understand that. It's supply and demand.

Question negatived.