Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We do have an ambitious target, Senator Bragg, and we make no apology for that. We have an ambitious target because we want to add to housing supply. I know that those opposite forget that there are two sides to reducing housing prices. One is to provide assistance, as we are, to first home buyers through the Help to Buy scheme and so forth, but the other is to add to supply. So, obviously, this is an ambitious target, but Australia needs an ambitious target, and we need to all work together towards that ambitious target. We need to train more tradies, we need to cut red tape, we need to ensure that we build more local infrastructure, we need to make investments in social housing that—