Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Pearce for her question. I was with the member for Pearce just last week in the great state of Western Australia, where I visited Karratha and Perth over a three-day period. We are working for Australia every single day. Relieving cost-of-living pressures is, of course, our No. 1 priority. Since the last sitting of parliament we have delivered, from housing right through to health.

We have, through the National Cabinet, announced the most significant housing reforms in a generation: a new national target to build 1.2 million homes; a National Planning Reform Blueprint for planning and zoning so that people can live close to their work and their families; and the $3 billion New Home Bonus to incentivise state governments and territory governments to get homes built. We've secured a better deal for renters, making renting fairer, and we're working with states to deliver Help to Buy, which will help people to purchase homes of their own.

We also began on 1 September the second round of our cheaper medicines policy—two months worth of medicine for the price of one. I noticed on 1 September Senator Ruston put out a media release saying the coalition support sixty-day dispensing. They'd been opposing it ever since it was announced, but they've put out a release saying they're supporting it now. It will make an enormous difference. We are also working with community pharmacies to make sure that their interests are looked after.

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