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

I join with members of parliament in welcoming the UK minister here. I look forward to welcoming minister Shapps to the Lodge later today, along with Minister Cameron, the foreign minister. We will be hosting the AUKMIN dedication there later this evening before they head to Adelaide for what will be a very important meeting. I look forward to hearing the feedback about your trip to Osborne. I was able to host the High Commissioner just on Tuesday evening as well to get a briefing about the relationship between Australia and the UK, of which the AUKUS arrangements and our Defence relationship is so important.

On the question, the fact is that migration is lower than it was anticipated to be; the population figures lower than what was anticipated to be under the former government. Indeed, the Business Council of Australia have said that in fact new housing supply has been falling over the last half decade. They said that in 2023 about the period in which those opposite were in government—not the ACTU, the Business Council of Australia. I know they are antibusiness a lot of the time these days. The modern Liberal Party have just been moving further and further and further to the right, so they are a party now led by people like Senator Antic and others, rather than mainstream people. The member for Deakin's faction are running that mob in Melbourne into the ground.

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