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

I thank the member for Deakin for his question. I note that people, including Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, who's the former MIRVAC CEO and the chair of the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, have indicated that housing and rental affordability is a real problem which has been decades in the making and that it's about supply. The nation's housing ministers didn't meet in the last five years of the former government. They went five years without any contact whatsoever. We know that, in my home state of New South Wales, the coalition were in office for 12 years and they sold off 7,600 public housing properties and only built 4½ thousand, a net loss of 3,000 properties—

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