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

I really want to thank the member for Bean for his question. He's a really big advocate for us building more homes around the country and he often talks to me about the really significant housing challenges that are facing his Canberra community. He's got constituents that are working hard. They're doing everything right, yet still they cannot afford to buy a home in our great country.

Now, it is too hard to build a home in our country and it is too hard to buy a home in our country. That is because we have a housing system that's been in desperate need of reform for 40 years. Our government is turning that moment of national challenge into a moment of national change. Just in the last two weeks, you've seen our government deliver on a couple of really important—

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