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

I would start my answer with the fact that the chair of the supply council has also said that the 1.2 million homes target is suitably ambitious and clearly focuses attention on improving supply. That is also advice. The fact that we have a council and the fact that we have a report looking at housing supply across the country demonstrate this government's determination to increase the supply of housing. This is the work that wasn't done under the former government, and to pretend that the housing pressures arose overnight, in the last year or in the last two years is simply incorrect. It's not true. It is as a result—and you have to take some responsibility; maybe not you, Senator Bragg, because you weren't in the executive—of the lack of attention that was placed on housing by the former government. You didn't even have a minister for housing. There was no minister in the ministry until right towards the end when you realised that you'd stuffed it up.