MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE

Ms COFFEY (Griffith) (16:15): I note that the member for Durack said that she's been speaking to young people in her community. I'm just not sure who they are, because the young people in my community are saying something very different. They are saying that they are doing everything that we ask of them—that they are saving and they are making careful choices about their future.

For so many of them, they aspire to have a place of their own, somewhere to raise a family, put down roots and build a life. But that hope is becoming harder to realise. Rents are absorbing more of their income.

House prices have moved further out of reach. All the while, young people are just working harder and harder and unable to get a foothold. When the system gives greater advantage to someone buying their 10th home than it does to someone buying their first, we need to be prepared to ask whether it is still delivering a fair go.

It would be easier to do nothing. Labor is choosing a fairer path, one that backs work, supports new homes and gives younger Australians a better opportunity to build secure lives in the communities they call home. For young people across Griffith, and across the country, the Australian dream cannot be blocked by a system that undermines them.

It will always be harder, but we are choosing to direct investment towards building new homes. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): The time for this discussion has concluded.