The Treasurer has flagged housing will be a focus of the budget next week. The budget will include financial support to cover the costs of training 20-thousand people in the housing and construction sector. It comes after an independent report cast doubt over the government's goal of building an extra one-point-two million homes by 2029.
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00:00 We recognise that we won't get those houses built unless we train the apprentices and the builders to build them.
00:09 And that's why these 20,000 fee-free opportunities for builders is so important today,
00:16 because we won't build the 1.2 million homes without an increase in our skilled labour force,
00:22 without more builders and construction workers,
00:25 and that's why we're making this $90 million investment in the budget.
00:30 We know that there's not enough homes.
00:32 We need to build much more housing in our communities and in our country.
00:37 We've made some quite big investments already, and people should expect to see more on Tuesday night.
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