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

If I can in one minute, I'll give the Senate an update on all of the investments that we've made in housing: $1 billion to get homes built sooner with states and territories, $90 million to boost the construction workforce, the new agreement with states and territories on social housing and homelessness, crisis and transitional accommodation, the first back-to-back increases to rent assistance in more than 30 years, working with universities to increase student accommodation, the Housing Australia Future Fund, the $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator, the $3 billion New Homes Bonus and build-to-rent accommodation. We've helped more than 110,000 people into their own homes, and the Help to Buy shared-equity scheme will help even more. Those opposite seek to frustrate, obstruct and block, and the Australian community sees it. They see the position you take on housing, they know it's wrong and they know that the federal government should be doing everything it can to increase the supply of housing, which is exactly what we are doing.