Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Bragg, you've opposed and voted against all of the housing measures that we have brought to this chamber to improve housing affordability and access to housing for Australians, so you have no credibility on housing or housing policy at all.

Senator Pocock's question relates to analysis that ACOSS have done. The government works closely with ACOSS across a number of portfolios. I engage with ACOSS as well. We will always work with organisations, particularly when their focus is on driving fairness across the Australian economy. We've done a number of things to improve housing affordability and access to housing and housing security since coming to government, including back-to-back increases in rent assistance. We've also built 5,000 social and affordable homes. There are another 25,000 in planning or construction. Under the Housing Australia Future Fund we've got more housing being announced right around the country. I see that the Minister for Housing is constantly on housing sites or working with housing providers.

As I said at the beginning, our policies in relation to this haven't changed. We remain focused on delivering the commitments we took to the last election, which were to build and drive supply of housing across the country as a way of improving affordability and access to housing for all Australians.