Prime minister attempting to win back Griffith with a focus on housing

The prime minister is campaigning in Queensland today where Labor is hopeful of picking up seats this election.

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00:00Well, the Prime Minister's bounced into Brisbane and gone straight to a seat that he believes

00:06should still be in Labor's hands.

00:08Griffith, now held by first term Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather, who also happens to be

00:13the party's housing spokesman.

00:15Well, today housing is the focus of the Prime Minister's campaign and despite the billions

00:20that Labor has invested, Anthony Albanese has been under pressure to show that that

00:24money is actually getting homes built.

00:26We're here in Stone's Corner at a social and affordable housing project building 82 units

00:32that's been the beneficiary of low-cost finance through a Commonwealth scheme.

00:36We know that the local MP here has held up, personally held up, as the Greens party housing

00:44spokesperson held up investments like this, has held up investments in the Housing Australia

00:51Future Fund, held up the help to buy scheme, which is about shared equity in home ownership,

00:59held up the build to rent scheme that's about private rental properties that will result

01:05in well over six figures of houses being built.

01:11Even before Labor released its costings yesterday, ratings agency S&P warned both parties that their

01:16big spending agendas coupled with little budget repair could put Australia's coveted AAA credit

01:22rating at risk.

01:24Today, Labor's claims of a big budget turnaround were challenged, the Prime Minister and Treasurer

01:29facing multiple questions about the extent to which Labor has improved the budget bottom line.

01:34Jim Chalmers brushed off the criticism and effectively jawboned S&P into keeping Australia's credit rating

01:40as it stands.

01:42There would be no reason to lose the AAA if Labor is re-elected because we've shown not

01:47just an enthusiasm for responsible economic management, but we've got a good record of

01:51responsible economic management. I invite you to recall what the budget looked like on the day

01:55that we came to office.

01:57Well, the Prime Minister is expected to target a handful of seats today, Griffith and Brisbane

02:01among them. Will he visit Peter Dutton's seat of Dixon though? That's 40 kilometres down the road

02:07road from where we are standing. Labor's Ali France is making her third attempt at unseating

02:12the Liberal leader and Anthony Albanese reckons she's got a good chance at doing just that.