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

When I'm looking to see the authenticity of those opposite, I like to check on what they did when they were in government. I've talked about a record $6.3 billion in infrastructure investment. I want to see if the parliament can guess how many multiples that is of the money that was spent by those opposite on housing infrastructure in their time in office. Was it twice as much? That would be a lot for us to be spending. Was it three times? Was it 10 times? You're not going to believe this—we are investing 50 times as much money as those opposite did in housing infrastructure. I'm not making that up. It really is quite extraordinary. That's what happens when you can't even be bothered having a housing minister. Labor has a $47 billion plan for the country, and, by God, were we proud to build on that on Tuesday night's housing budget.

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