Q: Do you accept responsibility for the housing price given you allowed in a million people net migration in, in two years. And the minister who was responsible for that mess, who you got your mate, Tony Burke filling for you’ve now put in the housing portfolio, ironically, do you accept any responsibility for the housing price?

(A reminder that when borders were closed because of Covid, and there was no migration, house prices in Australia shot up.)

Albanese:

Well, it would be hard for the Housing Minister during the period of the former government to take responsibility because they didn’t have one, they because they didn’t have one, and they invested $5 billion over a decade.

Over a decade, there were periods and budgets where there was $0 going out into public and social housing. What we have are doing is digging Australia out of the hole that the Liberals have dug over a decade of inaction.

So what we are doing is responding, and when it comes to migration, the gold and silver medal winners are the same bloke, Peter Dutton.

He granted more visas to people to come to Australia than any other minister. He also runs second gold and silver and and that is just a fact.