Cassandra Fernando (Holt, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

'You get a house, and you get a house, and you get a house!' This is Labor's proposal under the National Housing Accord to build 1.2 million houses by 2029. We know the cost of housing is being felt by many Australians, and Labor is committed to addressing this issue. This year we are investing $6.2 billion into housing, bringing the government's total investment to over $32 billion. We are allocating $3.5 billion to clearing construction bottlenecks and funding essential infrastructures such as roads, parks and sewers. I know there is nothing attractive about building sewers, but this is crucial for developing new housing projects in areas like Clyde and Cranbourne West, where the infrastructure has been slow to catch up with new development. We are also paying to train 20,000 new construction workers to address a labour shortage and to ensure we have enough people to get the job done, because if, like Bob the Builder, we ask: can we fix it? Yes, we can!