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

We are proud to have a housing target that includes the plan to build 1.2 million homes. We have set that target and we are putting in place the policies to meet that target. Obviously, working with the states and territories is really important here but also so is training more tradies. Part of the issue we have is around workforce. We're funding more apprenticeships and growing that workforce, looking at how we can cut red tape, which is the work we are doing with local government, doing planning reform, providing incentives to state governments to get homes built quickly, delivering the biggest investment in social housing in more than a decade and working with the states and territories on how to reduce homelessness.

I would say to those opposite that this was a problem a decade in the making because of the distinct lack of interest from those opposite in housing. They didn't even have a housing minister for a substantial period of time. (Time expired)