Page 1551 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 4 May 2016

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extended time after time after time. That is a good thing but that is what happens when you give a one-off injection of funds. You become lazy and you start relying on it instead of taking responsibility for what you can be doing yourself.

The Auditor-General of the ACT found the issues that the ACT government had. They could not even account for their own spending of the national partnership agreement on homelessness. But they go cap in hand, “Money, money, money,” over and over again. And they could not even explain what they had done with the first lot of funding that they got.

At 6 pm, in accordance with standing order 34, the debate was interrupted. The motion for the adjournment of the Assembly having been put and negatived, the debate was resumed.

MS LAWDER: Here we have a government that has many of the policy levers at their fingertips and they are refusing to implement them. Instead, they are blaming the federal government because that suits their political narrative. It suits their political narrative rather than actually doing something to help the people of the ACT. I find it absolutely incredible that we are just going to keep gouging our residents over and over again—their rates, their fees, their charges. We are going to push up the price of land over and over again because what the government want is to rake in the most money that they possibly can instead of considering that intergenerational housing crisis that we are passing on to our children and grandchildren.

I do say, “Shame, shame on the government,” for their lack of action on the affordable housing action plan, their lack of action generally on housing affordability and their lack of willingness to embrace possible solutions to start to make some inroads into the problem of housing affordability in the ACT. We will not be supporting this amendment today.

Question put:

That Mr Hinder’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

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