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

What we do is not use people as props. What we do is support the construction of new housing. The evidence in relation to rent caps is very strong. What it does is hold back construction of new homes. It's not an effective measure. It's an effective slogan but not an effective measure, in policy terms, for delivering real homes for people. That is the activity that this government has set about doing, with $47 billion in measures for home construction in the private market, through to social and affordable housing. I know that doesn't suit the Greens political party's hyperventilating rhetoric.