Peter Dutton’s budget reply did not announce ‘a single new dollar’ for housing supply

Labor MP Andrew Charlton says Opposition leader Peter Dutton had his “big chance” with his budget reply but did not announce “a single new dollar” for housing supply. Mr Charlton says house prices have increased by 12 per cent in his electorate of Parramatta over the last 12 months. “That’s why the government has announced $32 billion in new housing initiatives since we came to government,” Mr Charlton said. “Compare that with the Opposition leader, who had his big chance in his budget reply, and he did not announce a single new dollar for housing supply. “That’s a pretty extraordinary position for the Liberal Party to take at a time when everybody says that the problem is housing supply.”