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SenateMonday 17 August 2026

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:14): I'm sure that the Prime Minister and the Treasurer are very much in agreement on this clear issue that we want more Australians able to own their own home and enter the market. Senator, I know in your first question you were making a range of assertions about the housing market.

I would make this point. You're a senator for New South Wales. We have just under 75,000 people from New South Wales who have bought a home with a five per cent deposit.

Do you support that? We have about 9,400 social and affordable homes being delivered in your state. Do you support that?

We have housing and infrastructure investments of $514 million. These are some of the investments that the government is making in your own state. Senator, if you are so anti all of these, why don't you go and say to all of these constituents in New South Wales, 'We don't want you to have the five per cent deposit and we don't want more— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Collins, second supplementary?

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