STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Mr BURNS (Macnamara) (13:56): Deputy Speaker Claydon, the Manager of Opposition Business is new here; He's still learning the ropes here! We have just passed tax reform through the House of Representatives that will make housing more affordable for younger Australians. The bill will now be sent over to the Senate, and I am reminded that, at the last election Australians voted for builders not blockers.

Australians voted for making housing more affordable not playing games with housing. If you wanted evidence of what their games and what their blocking did, you only have to look at where their housing spokespeople are right now. The Liberals own spokesperson is not in this chamber anymore because of the blocking that they did under the last parliament.

Of course, I was quite surprise to open the Australian Fin Review last night and see this headline: 'Greens and Liberals in fresh talks to delay legislation'. The Liberals and the Greens are teaming up together to block tax reform. They're teaming up together to stop young people being able to buy their first home.

This new collection of ragtags are denying young Australians the dream of homeownership, but we are going to pursue this because we know that young Australians deserve to buy their own home in this great country of ours.