Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Finally, Minister, the Insurance Council of Australia has been talking in recent days about resilience in housing, particularly with regard to natural disasters, to which Australia is becoming increasingly prone. They are looking at fire, flood, climate change impacts and so on. While some of these measures for resilient housing would increase the upfront cost of some of the housing that we are building, it will certainly reduce insurance premiums charged and paid, which again is another cost to the Commonwealth or to the community housing sector. I am wondering if you can inform us as to what degree you are considering resilient housing measures and adaptability to these sorts of events and what kinds of benchmarks you would be setting for the developers and the builders.