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

I thank the member for Corangamite for her question. Indeed, we have a comprehensive plan. Our $32 billion Homes for Australia Plan is about increased supply of social and affordable housing and about increased support for people who are renting, with increased rental assistance in the last two budgets.

In addition to that, of course, we want more Australians to own their own homes. We have a plan to build 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade. We're training more tradies, we're funding more infrastructure and we're delivering more social housing, and we are seeing results. We have helped 120,000 people into homeownership sooner, twice as many as occurred under the former government.

And this week two of our most important measures will be voted on in the Senate. Just before, Help to Buy passed the Senate with the support of everyone except for the coalition and One Nation. We think this will help 40,000 Australians on low incomes to buy their first home, getting more affordable rentals on the market. We would have helped those 40,000 Australians a year ago if those opposite weren't standing in the way, and now they have promised to get rid of it if they are elected to office. So first they stood in the way, and now they say they'll take it away. That's their approach to increased homeownership. Australians could have been in those homes right now, but they just said, 'No, no, no,' like a broken record.

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