Q: We have spoken with homeless women about some of the stucco government is doing about housing and they said that this is all well and good these 5% programs but they can’t even put together 5% for a deposit. What they really need is emergency housing specifically for them fleeing domestic violence and the need to be able to live with their teenage sons. What is your government going to do about that?

Albanese:

The Housing Australia Future Fund [included funding for ] emergency accommodation women and children escaping domestic violence.

They were saying that we pointed out when the Greens and the Liberals and the Nationals in the Senate held it up for month after month after month, they held up that funding.

That is just one element in addition to the work that Claire and Amanda Rishworth, another great South Australian Cabinet minister that is not here, has done in getting agreement for increased funding for emergency funding for women and children escaping domestic violence as well. We know there is more need to be done.

That is why we have attempted to put in place programs earlier to make sure that we address those issues on top of the additional community workers that we have put in place as well.

Q: There will be a lot of people this morning saying that I don’t qualify for this. They are not first-time buyers looking at buying a home and saying what does this mean for us? The majority of the people in the housing market, what this mean?

Albanese:

It means if you increase supply, you assist everyone because you have an impact on affordability. Across the board whether it is Housing Australia Future Fund, the Social Housing Accelerator that we put in, the immediate fund we were able to do, with what they did there are now people living in homes that were left derelict.

They basically were not being fixed up. I remember under the former government here in South Australia going to homes that were unlivable here.

They are now being fixed up because there is a specific fund for them. We are about Housing Australia Future Fund, looking after social housing, emergency housing and by helping people into homeownership through shared equity.

Our housing Australia fund is as well. Peter Dutton speaks about housing infrastructure to help with electricity, water supply and those measures. We have announced two rounds of that program, ensuring private developers to be able to have that increasing housing supply. The board, we know supply is the key. Only Labor is looking at supply as well as demand.