Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) | Hansard source

Well, it is hard to hear that question and really think that there is a measured approach on these housing questions coming from the Greens political party. Under this government, the number of Australians, mostly young Australians, who have taken advantage of that scheme is at 270,000. That is more than a quarter of a million Australians who now have a home because of that scheme, and the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric president that the senator asking the question engaged in just doesn't accept that fact that over a quarter of a million Australians, through just that component of our approach to housing—