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First Homer Buyer Choice Initiative

Published on: October 2022

Record: HANSARD-1323879322-128065

First Homer Buyer Choice Initiative

Ms FELICITY WILSON (North Shore) (14:40:59):

My question is addressed to the Treasurer and Minister for Energy. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the Government's First Home Buyer Choice initiative will empower families and young people?

Mr MATT KEAN (HornsbyTreasurer, and Minister for Energy) (14:41:13):

— I sure can. I thank the outstanding member for North Shore for her question. Never have the people of North Shore been represented by a better MP. That is because the member for North Shore believes in choice and in empowering young people to be able to choose between a high up-front stamp duty or a small annual fee.

The SPEAKER:

Order! I call the member for Macquarie Fields to order for the first time.

Mr MATT KEAN:

Who in this Chamber does not like choice? Miserable Minns. No-one hates choice more than miserable, miserly, mean Minns.

Ms Yasmin Catley:

Point of order: The Treasurer knows that he should refer to members of this House by their title or their electorate.

The SPEAKER:

I uphold the point of order.

Mr MATT KEAN:

I note the interjection from the member. It is Mr Miserable Minns, because no-one hates choice more than the Leader of the Opposition.

Mr Ron Hoenig:

Point of order: The Treasurer cannot defy an order that the Speaker has just made under Standing Order 75. He should be put on a call and told that he cannot do it.

The SPEAKER:

I ask the Treasurer to resume in an appropriate way.

Mr MATT KEAN:

I am talking about choice. The Government supports choice for young people to enter the housing market much sooner. No-one hates choice more than the Leader of the Opposition. Just ask the rank‑and‑file branch members who chose Jodi McKay to be their leader. Did he respect their choice? No.

Mr Ron Hoenig:

Point of order—

Mr MATT KEAN:

Just ask the fearless corruption fighter, the member for Bankstown, who exercised her choice to speak out against corruption in the ALP. Did he respect her choice?

The SPEAKER:

The Treasurer will resume his seat.

Mr Ron Hoenig:

It is Standing Order 129. He is not even generally relevant to the question asked by the member for North Shore.

The SPEAKER:

The Treasurer will come directly to the question.

Mr MATT KEAN:

I am talking about choice. I am talking about the choice for people to be able to pay a large up-front stamp duty or a small annual fee to help them realise their dream of home ownership much sooner, shaving up to two years off the time it takes to save for a deposit.

The SPEAKER:

Order! I call the member for Newcastle to order for the second time.

Mr MATT KEAN:

Did the Leader of the Opposition support the choice at the Concord West Rhodes branch of the Labor Party to support first home buyers?

The SPEAKER:

Order! I call the member for Rockdale to order for the second time.

Mr MATT KEAN:Extension of time

Did he respect their choice? []

Just when we thought he could not crush any more people's choices, we found out that he has crushed the choice of the Sapphire Coast branch of the Labor Party to support first home buyers. In the conference paper—

Mr Michael Daley:

Point of order—

The SPEAKER:

The Treasurer will resume his seat.

Mr Michael Daley:

My point of order is under Standing Order 73 and Standing Order 129.

The SPEAKER:

There is no point of order.

Mr MATT KEAN:

They have come out pleading with Miserable Minns and Spooky Mookhey to stop their scare campaign.

Mr Greg Warren:

Point of order—

The SPEAKER:

The Treasurer will resume his seat.

Mr Greg Warren:

My point of order is under Standing Order 129. The Minister is also flouting your previous ruling about calling members by their correct title.

The SPEAKER:

It is the wrong standing order, but I uphold the intent of what the member is trying to say.

Mr Greg Warren:

He is not even being remotely relevant to the member for North Shore's question.

The SPEAKER:

The Treasurer will refer to members by their proper titles.

Mr MATT KEAN:Time expired.

The poor old member for Campbelltown—he has done the worst audition for the leadership we have ever seen. The Sapphire Coast branch of the Labor Party has put up a motion for conference tomorrow. It says, "Expressing support for the implementation of a land tax to replace stamp duty and asking the party to reconsider its opposition to the proposed tax." Does he support fair choice? No-one hates choice more than the Leader of the Opposition. But there is one choice that he likes when it comes to housing, and that is choosing how to spend half a million dollars on his home renovation—whether it is on a pool or a pool room. I have something that he could hang in the pool room. It is a framed copy of the Sapphire Coast branch members' motion for this weekend. It can go next to his beautiful photo of Huang Xiangmo and the holiday snaps from his junket to China. []