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

Thank you, Senator Grogan. You're right that, after a wasted decade, we do need to urgently boost housing supply, which is why we are building more homes more quickly in more parts of the country. That is why we are training more tradies, funding more apprenticeships and growing the construction workforce. This is why we are kickstarting construction by cutting red tape and providing incentives to state governments to get homes built faster and we are delivering the largest investment in social housing in more than a decade to help reduce homelessness.

Getting over a million homes built by the end of the decade won't happen overnight, but it will not happen at all if the Liberals are back in charge. The reality is Mr Dutton and those opposite would rather fund bosses' long lunches than build homes for young Australians.