Bridget Archer (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Tomorrow it will be a thousand days since the election of the Albanese Labor government. The Prime Minister promised Australians that he would deliver 1.2 million new homes. Instead, mortgages are up, approvals are down, construction costs are skyrocketing, rents are through the roof and the Australian dream of homeownership has never been further out of reach. Why won't this Prime Minister apologise for his weak leadership, bad decisions and wrong priorities?

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

I thank the member for Bass for her question. It has, indeed, been a thousand days, and 84 per cent of taxpayers are better off because of our tax cuts. A thousand days—and $1 billion has been saved thanks to cheaper medicines. A thousand days—and there have been 1.1 million free doctor's appointments at urgent care clinics, including the one in your electorate. A thousand days—and there have been 5.8 million extra bulk-billed appointments thanks to our bulk-billing increases. A thousand days—and the upgrade of Launceston hospital was delivered by this side. A thousand days—and 2.6 million award-wage workers have better pay. A thousand days—and over one million families have on average saved $2,700 with cheaper child care as a result of our reforms. A thousand days—and 600,000 Australians are getting access to free TAFE. A thousand days—and thousands of workers are earning more because of same job, same pay. That is including Nicole, who I met in Queensland, who is earning more than an additional $30,000 just by being paid the same wage as the person they're working beside, doing the same job with the same experience. A thousand days—and we've delivered 1.1 million new jobs.

The member for Bass is part of an operation that has delivered three policies. One, $10 billion to fund long lunches for business. I say to Australians: they'll keep asking you to dig deep so someone else can dig in—simple as that. Two, $600 billion to build nuclear reactors. There won't be any of them in Tasmania, but Tasmanian taxpayers will pay.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause. The member for Bass, on a point of order.

Bridget Archer (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Relevance: there's not much left of the answer, and the Prime Minister hasn't mentioned housing, which was what I asked about.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister has 48 seconds. He will make sure his answer is directly relevant. It was a fairly broad question, but it was about housing as well.

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

I'll tell you what will happen with housing with the third policy. We have the free lunches, we have the $600 billion nuclear reactors and we've got a third policy as well from those opposite—cuts to everything to pay for them, including cutting the Housing Australia Future Fund and less money for public and social housing. I've opened new social housing in the member's electorate, there in Launceston, along with the community housing provider. The member might have voted for that, but all of her colleagues didn't. I suggest to the member that she knows the answer herself. She voted for things that the Liberal Party voted against. She's a good person, but she's in a very bad party.