Labor and Greens strike anti-vaping deal – as it happened
by Jordyn Beazley and Amy Remeikis (earlier) from on (#6NQJ6)
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David Pocock also spoke to the ABC about his private member's bill that would see housing treated as a human right. He said it was needed because:
There's no overarching national plan and this would legislate that these are the objectives, we want to see housing affordable, we want to reduce homelessness and then it would be up to the government to actually work out - how are we going to do that?
What are the policies that we think will address this?
One of my heroes Desmond Tutu used to say don't raise your voice, improve your argument'.
It's pretty tragic the major parties tear the opposition down rather than improving their argument and making their plans stand on their own two feet.
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