Allan KiritapuKIRITAPU ALLAN (Labour): Mr Speaker I think history will record that for those members that vote in favour of this bill tonight we are on the right side of history. It only takes a very quick walk down into any one of our communities that is of a lower socioeconomic circumstance to see the absolute strife that families are in. It's no longer 30 years ago when 60 percent of all adults owned their own homes and this and that—the Residential Tenancies Act was created in another time another place.The reality is that for most of us who walked the streets alongside those in our community we know the trauma of what it is like to lose your home. We know that those kids that are growing up in those homes without that certainty of having a roof over their heads are going to go from school to school to school. We know that they'll come from some of the most vulnerable backgrounds and some of the hardest backgrounds. And perhaps not all of us within this House have intimate knowledge of what it's like to walk in those shoes.But I can tell you those of us who cast our vote to amend—fundamentally amend—the Residential Tenancies Act tonight see—that when our children look back and see what we've done I don't think that there's going to be future generations of landlords that will storm this House and go Hey! You took away my landlord rights." Because they would have taken that cash and put it somewhere else. But for those folks that are very much dependent on having a decent landlord—I was with a friend in the weekend; he didn't know I would use this but he's a landlord and he said "Oh no I'm going to have to kick the tenants out if you guys rush through this bill it's very anti-landlord." My mate he was the chief financial officer of a big company and he lived in one of the wealthiest places in the area I live in. We only have two really wealthy areas in my entire electorate—he lived in one. The lifestyle that he can live is a wonderful lifestyle it's absolutely fantastic.Andrew Bayly: What's that got to do with it?KIRITAPU ALLAN: That's got everything to do with it.Andrew Bayly: What? That he lives in a big house?KIRITAPU ALLAN: Fantastic for him. But he also chose to put his capital into housing others. He didn't want to upgrade those homes. He didn't care that he needed to upgrade those homes to make them of a minimum healthy standard. And I said that to my mate—Andrew Bayly: Did he say that? Did he specifically say that he's not going to meet the health standards?KIRITAPU ALLAN: Course we did. Of course we say that. And I hope you'd say those same things to your friends too. Of course we hold each other to account. We had a good old yarn about it.Andrew Bayly: I don't believe it.KIRITAPU ALLAN: Of course you do—if you don't believe that what's wrong with you? Why aren't you having those conversations in your communities with your mates who are the most privileged in our country? They can buy multiple houses and not bring them up to a minimum healthy standard for families that rely—Jonathan Young: How do you know?KIRITAPU ALLAN: Because you guys are saying it to me right now. I'm just listening to you guys. I'm just responding to you. For those of us in this House who aren't afraid to have those challenging yarns with our mates—and we all carry a bit of privilege here in this House. Well I hope that we are having those yarns. I hope that if we've got mates that are rich enough to be able to invest in owning multiple houses we can give them all a bit of a kick up the bum and say "Hey actually the obligation is on us to be able to lift the standard on those homes make sure that they're of a healthy standard make sure that we are proud to do that—if that's where we choose to invest our capital." And this will be a fundamental disagreement—and we're going to hear some vitriol in the course of the speeches this afternoon and I say "Shame!" Shame on that side of the House for that position that you don't mind giving a boot to those families that are dependent on us that do own homes.We've got the capital invested in those homes. Get them up to a decent standard. And I am so incredibly proud of all of those that have invested their time into ensuring that our friends that are dependent on landlords are going to get those houses up to a blooming good nick. So I commend this bill to the House. And thank goodness we have the numbers to do that."