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

He went on to say, 'That won't change a thing, because what we know right now is that the planning system is not the barrier to fixing the housing crisis.' I tell you what: when you look at each of the states and all of our capital cities, we know that planning is a big problem. But, of course, one of his colleagues—the member for Brisbane, who's not here today—has opposed an apartment building in his inner-city electorate because it would, to quote him, 'have a substantive impact on the views of existing nearby residents', and then, where there's another development that would turn an empty sand and gravel factory into 381 apartments, it's because there would be too many car parks associated with it. He is also concerned that the height of the building would impact the 'unique character of this heritage neighbourhood'. And the member for Brisbane's justification for opposing this very sensible build-to-rent scheme was that developers would build the buildings. That's what they put in their media release.

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