Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Housing) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Maribyrnong for her really important question. She is one of our housing guns, a group of members of parliament who have come into our chamber in 2025, and they share my view that our housing policies are amongst the most important things the Albanese government is doing for our country. We believe that because we see our housing policies changing the lives of the people that we come to this chamber to represent. In the Maribyrnong electorate alone there are now 929 social and affordable houses in planning or construction, almost a thousand homes in her electorate alone, and I want the chamber to know how many social and affordable homes the coalition built in her electorate in nine years. Can you guess the answer? The answer is zero. In three years we have got 929,000 homes on the go; in nine years they built none. You're not going to believe this, but the truth is that in the nine years they were in office they did not build a single social or affordable house in the whole state of Victoria.

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