Senate debates

Monday, 25 August 2025

Bills

Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025; In Committee

12:45 pm

Photo of Jacqui LambieJacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

We have just over 61,000 personnel. Apparently, that's the new August number for this year. I think it is 61,229, to be precise. By the early 2030s—I don't know what you mean by 'early'; I'd say 2031 or 2032—you want to grow that to 69,000. How many houses, or married quarters or housing, is DHA going to be required to build in the next five years just to get you to the 2030s, if you are able to get 69,000, or another 7,000, defence personnel into the miliary?

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