Assistant Minister for Competition and Charities Andrew Leigh says, by the Greens opposing the Housing Australia Future Fund, “they’ll allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good”.
“They have some idea out there as to how much housing they’d like and they’re saying instead ‘because we can’t get out perfect result, we’re going to zero new housing through the Housing Australia Future Fund’,” Mr Leigh told Sky News Australia.
“That approach makes no sense … at a local level it’s often Greens representatives that are holding up new housing developments and communities that need them.”
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