Labor's deputy leader Tanya Plibersek has slammed investors who negatively gear multiple properties while failing to mention she owns four properties, including one in Slovenia.
The woman who could be deputy prime minister in a few days took aim at millionaire real estate moguls who rented out their properties at a loss and claimed a tax break.
'What we really need to do to help first home buyers into the housing market is stop subsidising people buying their 10th or 20th investment property to compete with first home buyers at every auction that they're attending,' she told ABC News Breakfast on Thursday.
Ms Plibersek was defending Labor's plan to scrap negative gearing for existing properties from January 2020, should it win Saturday's election, in a bid to make it easier for young Australians to buy their first home.
ABC interviewer Virginia Trioli did not ask Ms Plibersek about the fact she owns four homes, including a rental investment at Ljubljana in Slovenia, which are all declared on her pecuniary interest register.
The deputy leader of the Labor Party and her husband Michael Coutts-Trotter, a senior New South Wales bureaucrat, bought their house at Rosebery, in Sydney's inner-south, for $1.1million in March 2005.
They list this four-bedroom, older-style home as their main place of residence.
The couple also own an apartment in the ritzy Canberra suburb of Kingston, near Lake Burley Griffin.
Ms Plibersek also has a stake in Carringah flat, in Sydney's Sutherland Shire, which falls with Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Cook electorate.
Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek (pictured right) and her husband Michael
