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

including helping 120,000 people into their first home sooner, Senator Ruston. We have announced 13,700 social and affordable homes from the first round of the Housing Australia Future Fund. We have increased the maximum rent assistance by more than 40 per cent since coming to government and given the biggest boost to rent assistance—which, Senator Ruston, as the former social services minister, you never achieved—in 30 years. And we have an ambition target of seeing 1.2 million homes built over five years. There is so much more to do. Friends, we're building and they're blocking. (Time expired)