Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I mentioned—and I appreciate that you were also consulting colleagues and that there were some very noisy people around you, Senator Birmingham—this is consistent with the corporate plan. The build has expanded, because we undertook, when we went from 90 per cent to 93 per cent, to incorporate an extra three per cent of homes. We also took on board greenfields, which meant that we were picking up a million-odd extra homes as part of those two decisions. We have well over a million homes extra in the 93 per cent and the greenfields, and that is what is behind this change. This was announced in December last year.