Leah Blyth (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence Infrastructure) | Hansard source

There's a reason that they call it 'question time' and not 'answer time', and I think what we've seen today, from the Labor government, is, again, dodging answers to serious questions. The coalition asked serious questions. We asked serious questions for older people here in Australia. We asked serious questions about young people and how they're going to get in to the housing market. And all we got was political spin coming back to us from this Labor government. They do not care about the Australian people. They are more interested in giving us their talking points and their spin on what is happening out there.

But I think Australians know: Australians are doing it tough—Australians that have gone out there and taken the five per cent deposit scheme, who now have negative equity in their homes. Can you imagine the position that these young people are in? They've gone out there, with this harebrained scheme which the Labor government decided was going to be great for everyone. The housing market has cooled, because they've decided to play around with the settings. This is all about an experiment for this Labor government, and what they've done is: they have created negative equity for these young Australians, who are going to struggle. They are going to struggle to afford their mortgages, because we've had—how many interest rate rises have we had under this government? I think we were up to 14 or 15 last time I checked.