Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I refer you to my previous answer. There is something constructive the Greens political party could do on this area—that is, stop running the campaigns in their own electorates against the new supply of affordable housing. For example, the member for Griffith is campaigning against the plan to build an aged-care facility in his electorate. Rather than allow 220 aged-care patients to get treatment, he wants the space used as a park. The member for Ryan is campaigning against a plan to subdivide an old chicken farm into 91 new homes, arguing against this development. We even have the member for Melbourne, Adam Bandt, also arguing against one of the new Social Housing Accelerator programs in Carlton. That is an area where we could all work together to support the increase of supply of housing to put downward pressure on rents. That is something that this chamber could support.