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Leaders continue campaigning in outer Melbourne suburbs today
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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4/16/2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spent the morning in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, spruiking Labor’s housing policy.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese campaigning at another construction site where he's trying
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to cement Labor's housing policy in voters' minds ahead of the lull of the Easter long
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weekend.
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Their pitch, throw open the front door to first home buyers with a $10 billion promise
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to build 100,000 new homes and cut years off the weight to own through a 5% deposit scheme.
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We have a plan for supply, not just for demand.
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And part of what we are doing on supply is right behind us here.
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The $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator program has seen over 700 homes built here in the
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suburbs of Melbourne and in regional Victoria.
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But there's a catch.
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Economists say this could push prices up even as the government frames it as a solution to
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rising costs.
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Where we are campaigning today is no accident.
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Menzies is the shadow housing minister, Michael Suker's electorate, that he holds on a nano
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margin of 0.02% and where Labor is seeking to evict him.
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Here in the outer metropolitan suburbs of Melbourne is where the election will be won and lost.
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Labor trying to convince the mortgage belt that the worst of the economic turbulence is
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the outcome of the murderous
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