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

As I said—President, through you—I'm very pleased to update the Senate that, since I last gave this answer, last week, we now have had more than 5,000 homes completed through Commonwealth programs since coming to government. That is an update from last week, which was 4,000 homes.

Obviously, we, on this side, believe that adding to the supply of housing is one of the ways in which we can address affordability. It is disappointing that those opposite now complain about housing affordability but stood in the way and continue to stand in the way of adding to housing supply. Of course, we all understand the economics of any market, but certainly housing supply affects price.