Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Under Labor, homes are more expensive and harder to find, yet foreign owners are allowed to dodge the vacancy rules and keep thousands of ghost homes off market while Australians struggle to find a home for their families. Documents obtained by One Nation under freedom of information expose Labor's failure to enforce foreign homeownership rules. According to the government records, there are at least 50,000 foreign owned ghost homes across Australia. Worse still, the Treasurer has admitted in writing that foreign owners are evading the rules, with 83 per cent or more not lodging compulsory vacancy reports with the ATO. Minister, why has the Albanese Labor government allowed thousands of foreign owned ghost homes to go unpoliced and unpunished in the middle of a housing crisis while Australian families suffer?