House debates Questions without Notice

Interest Rates

Tuesday, 9 May 2023 House of Representatives

Julie Collins

Julie Collins Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Small Business

3:30 pm

I thank the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is absolutely right. When the housing ministers met in Canberra last week, the Housing Supply and Affordability Council chair addressed the housing ministers, and she said the answer to the questions around housing today is supply, supply and supply. That is what we're trying to do with the Housing Australia Future Fund: add to supply. It is part of our broad spectrum of housing policies that includes, of course, that National Housing Accord and the $575 million that we have already unlocked, which has houses being built on the ground today for Australians. It includes the regional first home buyer guarantee that we brought forward so more regional Australians could—

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