Jenny Ware (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak on the government's failure to deliver the new housing that Australia needs. I think it's unfortunate now that the Minister for Housing is leaving the chamber and will not be around to hear what we have to say about her failed housing policy. What we have heard from the minister are the same things we have heard for 2½ years from the former minister for housing: 1.2 million new homes over five years, $10 billion invested in housing. They said, 'We have a bold and ambitious housing agenda. We have a bold and ambitious plan on housing.' Well, I would say that, rather than being called the 'Minister for Housing', perhaps the minister should be called the 'minister for housing announcements but the minister that cannot deliver housing'. The latest Bureau of Statistics numbers show that building activity has confirmed there is no end in sight to Labor's housing crisis. They know it on that side. They are saying the same things in those electorates. They are saying the same things in Eden-Monaro that they are saying and Hughes: this government has failed on housing, whether it is mortgages or whether it is rent—

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