Pushed on the fact that international students aren’t taking up as many rentals as Dutton claims (which is a fact) Dutton says:

Of course they are. I mean, where are these people living?* If people are coming here through the migration program, understandably they want a place to live but I’m not going to see Australians displaced from housing**.

There’s only so much housing stock and if you have got a 65% increase in the number of international students coming in, and you have brought in 2 million people over a – a million people over two years, 70% increase on any 2-year period in our country’s history, of course you’re creating a housing crisis. Why would the Prime Minister be surprised at that?

Jim Chalmers has no idea what’s coming next.*** What they have done is fuel inflation that’s driven up the cost of – the price of interest rates. This is a typical Labor Government. And if you put them in for a second term you’ll end up with Victoria is at the moment or where we were after the Keating years or where we were after the Hawke – after the Rudd-Gillard years, we can’t afford three more years of this. We can manage the economy, we can get our country back on track but Australians just can’t afford three more years of Labor particularly a Labor-Greens Government. You have a look in Ryan and Brisbane, the damage that those Labor members have already done. And Trevor Evans and Maggie Forrest, they’re two exceptional local candidates who will be great members of our Government and they’re going to work hard for their local communities because they want to see young renters being able to afford accommodation and to have some head-room in their budget. At the moment people aren’t insuring their cars or houses because they’re just trying to find every dollar of savings in their budget under a bad government****.

*Purpose built student accommodation, mostly.

**Many also live with families already in Australia

***No one does. That’s what Trump has done. The RBA says these are ‘uncertain times’

****Insurance has increased as a result of climate change