Senate debates
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Questions without Notice
Housing
2:40 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source
More than 520,000 homes have been built nationwide since Labor was elected, and we're working with the states and territories to build infrastructure to support new housing.
I heard Senator Bragg before. He's concerned about demand-side policies. Well, I was concerned to read the transcript yesterday of your interview with Patricia Karvelas, when you just dumped super for housing and everything that you've stood for. And all your colleagues say, 'We're not going to do that anymore. We'll just let that go.' That was at 3.35 yesterday, on a day when more than 30 members of the opposition were racing to get an interview spot in the press gallery. You couldn't get a spot in the press gallery yesterday. It was like a stampede. But Senator Bragg just managed to nick that little 15-minute interview, where he was able to dump super for housing. We have built over 5,000 social and affordable houses— (Time expired)
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