Page 3341 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 19 October 2022

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That is what the motion calls for. The government know that the ILRP is having a massive impact on housing unaffordability. They know; they just do not care. They have got away with it for this long. They are not going to change their MO now. We will not be supporting the amendment.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 14		Noes 7
Mr Barr	Dr Paterson		Mr Cain
Mr Braddock	Mr Pettersson		Ms Castley
Ms Burch	Mr Rattenbury		Mr Cocks
Ms Cheyne	Mr Steel		Mrs Kikkert
Ms Clay	Ms Stephen-Smith		Ms Lawder
Ms Davidson	Ms Vassarotti		Mr Milligan
Mr Davis			Mr Parton
Ms Orr

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Public housing—debt to commonwealth

MR PARTON (Brindabella) (4.14): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) the ACT Government has a housing debt of $98.3 million owed to the Federal Government;

(b) other state and territory governments also have historical housing-related debts to the Federal Government from the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement; and

(i) in 2013, South Australia had $320 million in debt waived by the Federal Labor Government; and

(ii) in 2019, Tasmania had $157 million in debt waived by the Federal Coalition Government;

(2) further notes that:

(a) in opposition, Labor Senator Katy Gallagher was critical of the Federal Coalition Government for not having waived ACT’s historic housing debt;

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