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

Senator Cash, you're entitled to ask me a question; you are not entitled to determine how I answer. I have been very clear that we have changed our policy position, and we are upfront about that.

We have done it because of what the budget papers tell us and what young people tell us, which is that that Australian aspiration—that Australian dream—of homeownership is slipping away from generations of Australians, and we do not wish to stand for it. That is, fundamentally, the issue. You will hear from this opposition, with all the drama that Senator Cash can muster, a lot of discussion about that. What you will not hear is what they are going to do to ensure young Australians can own their own home.