Bob Day (SA, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. There is an economic activity gap in South Australia and in the nation as a whole which, Treasury officials tell me, could be solved by meeting the shortfall of some 50,000 housing starts per annum. Housing affordability was once my home state's principal competitive advantage. Does the minister agree that housing construction would fill the national and South Australian activity gap and South Australia's GST shortfall?