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

We know that the housing crisis that we have and that Australians are struggling with is a consequence of those opposite neglecting this area of policy and, in particular, neglecting those most in need. I would invite the opposition to put people before politics, not politics before people. We would invite them to stop playing games with the Housing Australia Future Fund.

In its first five years this fund will deliver 20,000 social housing properties, 4,000 properties for women and children fleeing domestic violence and older women who are at risk of homelessness. It will provide a $100 million dollars for crisis and transitional housing for women and children, and $30 million to build more housing for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness. So we're talking about families fleeing domestic violence, we're talking about older women who are at risk of homelessness, we're talking about crisis housing and we're talking about housing for veterans. We would say to the opposition that you should put people before politics. (Time expired)