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

I quoted the peak organisation, but I'll quote another—senior businesswoman, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the former head of Mirvac. She knows something about housing. She's the Chair of the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, and she said: 'Housing and rental affordability is a real problem which has been decades in the making, fundamentally a housing supply issue.'

The nation's housing ministers under the former government did not meet over five years. There were no meetings; none. By the end of their nine years in office at the end of the June quarter 2022, the number of private dwellings completed had fallen to 41,000, the lowest quarterly number since 2014. The person who just got dismissed from the chamber had this to say: 'States and territories have the primary responsibility. There's a lot of work to be done by states and territories.' He was the federal minister— (Time expired)

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