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

I am getting a little bit of backchat, as I often do when I start talking about social and affordable housing. If you've been adding up the numbers as I go there, Speaker, you might have noticed that in the last six weeks alone, our government started construction on more social and affordable homes than the coalition built in a decade.

I'm asked about alternatives. Well, we saw it. It was nine years of neglect. Nine years of sitting on these government benches, seeing Australians in pain on housing, and choosing to do absolutely nothing about it. We can't forget the Nationals in here. I don't like to leave them out of the debate. I want the parliament to remember that in the entire nine years the coalition were in government, they built not a single social and affordable home across the entirety of regional and rural Australia. Those opposite occasionally talk about housing. Our Labor government is standing up and building it, and, despite those opposite, we're going to keep working for Australians. (Time expired)

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