Page 3229 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 21 August 2019

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stimulus package for Queanbeyan. Whether you are talking about families looking for a block or businesses looking for premises, nobody has done more for Queanbeyan than Mr Barr.

The Chief Minister may say that stamp duty is going to be decreased. We have heard it all before. He can try to make up this line that people are somehow better off, but people do not buy it. How many people in Canberra think that they are better off because insurance levies have been abolished? There is this idea that there are going to be mass savings because of stamp duty and insurance levies. What about the person who does not buy a house? What about the person who does not take out insurance policies because they cannot afford to? What about the person who does not have insurance policies because they have nothing to insure?

It is all very well to say that insurance levies are bringing about great relief for Canberrans. I know a lot of people that do not have insurance at all. If you are living in a group home or you are a single mother with a couple of kids in a rental property, my guess is that you are not taking out contents insurance. My guess is that the 10-year-old car with 150,000 kilometres on the clock has third-party insurance and not much else. These are real situations. These are real people that the Labor Party and the Greens are happy to turn their back on.

We need to stop these increases. We cannot just govern for the top end of town. There are many people who are doing it tough. That is why the punitive increases in rates, taxes, fees and charges must halt.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Question put:

That the motion, as amended, be agreed to.

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