Ministros do governo passaram a última semana argumentando abertamente, através da mídia, a favor e contra a autorização das pessoas usarem o seu fundo de aposentadoria - a chamada 'superannuation' - para ajudar a completar o depósito inicial para a compra da casa própria.
John Hewson disse à Sky News que Malcolm Turnbull precisa usar alguma estratégia de gerenciamento de pessoal para controlar os membros do governo.
"My solution, and it may not be transferable, is to give everybody a job, make them feel important in the policy development process. Internally. Kept them so damn busy they didn't have time to do all this stuff, and the ones you didn't like you sent them off overseas. You can manage people. It is an issues management issue and a challenge. It's a challenge to manage your team to set the standards, enforce the standards, enforce the discipline."
O senador governista David Leyonhjelm declarou que poderá votar com a oposição e disse nao entender porque o governo do seu partido entrou tão forte no debate do acesso a casa própria, uma vez que são os estados que cobram o stamp duty - uma taxa para a compra de imóveis -, os impostos territoriais e tambem são os estados que autorizam a liberação de áreas para a construção de moradias..
"Why the hell is there a debate at all concerning the federal government? The main drivers of housing affordability and we are really only talking about Sydney and Melbourne - no one thinks the price of housing in Townsville or Hobart or even Perth where they are falling is an issue. So we're talking Sydney and Melbourne and for as long as I can remember, certainly back in the days when I bought my first house in Sydney, there were people saying they are way too expensive, the government ought to do something."
