Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We understand that we have to work with state and territory governments and with organisations on the front line to respond to housing challenges. Unlike those opposite, who always tried to hand all this to the states, we've been working with state and territory governments. You know what they tell us? They tell us to pass the Housing Australia Future Fund. PowerHousing Australia, a network of community housing providers, has said:

Australians expect federal leadership and the time is now to pass this vital legislation and start taking action on housing affordability through the HAFF.

There are other not-for-profit community housing providers who are asking the Greens and the coalition to pass this legislation. I just remind the Senate again that this is about crisis accommodation for women escaping family and domestic violence. This is about funding to repair remote Indigenous housing. This is about support for veterans at risk of homelessness. It's 30,000 new social and affordable homes. You should pass the HAFF when it comes to the Senate. (Time expired)