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Container Deposits Scheme Speech

Penny Wright 13 Sep 2012

Housing

Senator WRIGHT (South Australia) (10:16):

I rise to speak on the Environment Protection (Beverage Container Deposit and Recovery Scheme) Bill 2010. Australians use 12 billion beverage containers every year. This bill, introduced by my Greens colleague Senator Scott Ludlam, introduces a scheme for the environmentally sustainable management and reuse of those containers to apply throughout Australia. This is a major and long overdue reform. Only half of those 12 billion beverage containers are currently recycled. Too many of them end up as litter or in landfill.

National Homeless Persons' Week Motion

Scott Ludlam 15 Aug 2012

Mental Health

Housing

We move:

That the Senate

(a) notes that:

(i) Last week, from 6 to 12 August 2012, it was National Homeless Persons' Week;
(ii) On any given night in Australia, approximately 105,000 people are experiencing homelessness;

(b) recognises that:

About Housing

Ensuring safe, secure and affordable housing and working to end the housing affordability crisis.

The Greens goal is for all Australians to have access to safe, secure, sustainable and affordable housing. The housing affordability crisis in Australia has come to define this generation. Successive governments have failed to keep up with the housing needs of a diverse, growing and ageing population, and deal with the unprecedented housing stress in boom towns. We are advocating for new and long term solutions that increase choice and security of tenure, and provide diverse types of housing in the places we want to live.

We are working toward increasing the supply of affordable and public housing, instead of artificially stimulating demand. The Greens are working to change the taxation treatment of housing which has promoted it as just another asset class. We are campaigning to end negative gearing and scale back capital gains tax discounts. Houses are homes and shelter is a human right.

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