Labor commits $10 billion to build 100,000 homes for first time buyers

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Anthony Albanese is in Tasmania announcing new funding for a newsprint paper mill in the marginal seat of Lyons.

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00:00We're in the seat of lines, as you've just said, and look, it's a fascinating seat because

00:05it's on a tiny, tiny margin held by Labor.

00:08It's less than 1%.

00:10That means it's super marginal.

00:11It means it's at risk for them.

00:12They're going to have to defend it.

00:14Now they've got candidate Rebecca White.

00:15If she sounds familiar to you, that's because she was the former Tasmanian ALP leader.

00:20We saw her today at the newsprint mill where the Prime Minister also announced a bit of

00:23a package to help that mill move into a decarbonised future, you might say, to reduce their emissions.

00:29They're going to electrify the mill so that it can be more environmentally friendly going

00:32forward.

00:34And we've also seen from the Prime Minister, though, talking a lot about his key policies,

00:38including things around housing, for instance, but also around Lions and Tasmania and the role

00:43that he sees Tasmania playing, he hopes, in the election of another Albanese Labor government.

00:49And you've also been in Adelaide today.

00:51The Prime Minister has been talking all things housing.

00:53How's that going?

00:54Yeah, that's right.

00:56We've been all over.

00:57Perth on Sunday, Adelaide this morning, Hobart today.

01:01And look, the main game, as you say, has been housing.

01:04They announced two major housing policies yesterday at their campaign launch.

01:08One of them, 100,000 homes to be built to be set aside specifically for home buyers.

01:13The other, an expansion of a program for first home buyers again to buy a place with a 5% deposit

01:19and skip over mortgage lenders insurance.

01:21Now, that is why we were out and about in Adelaide this morning looking at some of the developments

01:25that the government has been spruiking that are associated with their Housing Australia Future Fund.

01:29This has been a massive issue around the country, Jo.

01:32We've been in Cairns last week.

01:34I was in Brisbane as well.

01:35Key seats where the government really needs to either hold on to key voters or try and

01:40win seats back from parties like the Greens.

01:42And everybody is talking about housing.

01:44It doesn't matter whether you're in Cairns and you're a young, you know, visa holder trying

01:49to get your visa extension and you're working, but you can't find a rental.

01:52To folks who are actually working on some of these campaigns, Jo, people who are, you know,

01:55pretty well off, to be frank, who are still struggling to rent or buy their own place.

02:00So this issue is touching everybody and it's going to keep, I think, being a pretty important

02:04one right up until May the 3rd.

02:06Well, the Housing Australia Future Fund had a portion of that housing was about emergency

02:13accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence.

02:16That was something that we pointed out when the Greens and the Liberals and the Nationals

02:21in the Senate held it up for month after month after month after month.

02:28We know that there is more needed to be done.

02:31That's why we've attempted to put in place programs earlier to make sure that we addressed

02:38those issues on top of the additional community workers that were put in place as well.

02:46Prime Minister Anthony Albanese there.

02:48He was speaking earlier this morning in Adelaide.

02:50And Jo, what he was specifically talking about there, the Housing Australia Future Fund,

02:54was in regard to domestic violence and women who are needing to flee violent partners.

02:58And we actually asked him what the government is going to do for people who don't benefit

03:02from these new first home buyers programs because they can't even get, of course, they can't

03:06get the money together for a 5% deposit because they're really struggling.

03:09And we asked about women who need to be able to live, for example, in emergency accommodation

03:14with their teenage sons.

03:15This is a big problem for women who need to escape domestic violence.

03:18There's a lot of shelters who won't be able to take them in if they have a young man with

03:21them.

03:22So that, like you just heard then, the half is going to be part of that, but we're going

03:25to keep pressing them for further answers on exactly how that's going to work if they're

03:28re-elected.

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