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

After almost a decade of neglect under those opposite, we do have a housing shortage, and we need to build more homes, more quickly, in more parts of the country. That is why the government has $32 billion in new housing initiatives in our comprehensive Homes for Australia plan. It includes an ambitious national goal of building 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade. What we know is that we have to deal with housing affordability, and the best way to deal with that is to increase supply and to ensure there are more affordable options for all Australians.

Unfortunately, this is another area of policy where we have seen the extremes of the political spectrum: the Greens and the coalition line up together to prevent progress, standing in the way of more help for Australian home buyers through their continued opposition to so many aspects of our housing plan. (Time expired)