The prime minister will defend Labor’s record on the economy at a ‘state of the nation’ conference this morning as parliament returns in the national capital
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On ABC radio RN Breakfast, Max Chandler-Mather is explaining why the Greens can not support the housing fund yet.
Chandler-Mather says the $500m a year floor doesn’t come in for another 12 months, and no homes will be built until 2025.
Why is it fair in one of the wealthiest countries on earth that we have to tell that single mom waiting for a public home that she has to wait until after 2025 and then basically go into a lottery to see if they can get one of the up to 20,000 social homes that government wants to build through to what 2030 when the shortage is 640,000 homes.
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