Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I know Senator Wong is a very big supporter of the housing strike team, and that is paving the way for the development of thousands of new homes for Australian families. Since being announced in late August last year, the strike team has ticked off more than 20,000 homes under national environmental law. In total, that team has given the green light to 28 projects for housing across the country, including 17 metropolitan developments and 11 regional developments. We're on track to deliver on our goal of assessing 26,000 new homes by July this year.

The only strike team that we know exists on the other side of this chamber, though, is the one aimed at each other after the catastrophic result for the coalition in the Farrer by-election. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, housing spokesman Senator Andrew Bragg said the Liberal Party 'deserved to be' in its position because it had done 'no serious policy work for about a decade', and he suggested that Tony Abbott's likely installation as party president would hurt the coalition with younger voters. There are a lot more quotes to go, but we'll have to wait until tomorrow for a few more of them to come out.