Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to the member for Griffith for his question about tax policy and housing policy. One of the things we are proudest of about the budget we handed down from this dispatch box on Tuesday night is the billions of dollars in new investments in housing. That's because we recognise that the housing pipeline we inherited after 10 years of neglect needs our urgent attention—and it's receiving our urgent attention. But, more than that, it is receiving $32 billion in investment, including $6 billion of new investment in the budget on Tuesday night. For this I pay tribute to the Minister for Housing and to the government for the way we have made building more homes for Australians a central economic priority of this government and this budget.

We don't ask for much. We ask for the parliament to support our efforts. And when we desperately needed those opposite to vote for more housing and when we needed—

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