The Prime Minister is campaigning in South Australia today, hoping to use the Labor’s housing pitch to build momentum for the final stretch of his campaign.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00Brick by brick, Labor is laying the foundations for a new generation of homeowners, promising
00:07to build 100,000 new homes for Australians hoping to get on the property ladder.
00:12Out on the hustings in Adelaide on the third week of the election campaign, Federal Labor
00:16is pointing to a similar scheme here in South Australia that they say is helping free up
00:21homes in an under pressure housing market. Campaigning alongside popular SA Premier Peter
00:27Naskus, Anthony Albanese made his pitch to Gen Z and Millennial voters who have been locked
00:32out of the property market, declaring his policies will boost housing supply.
00:36Under Labor there will be more homes and smaller deposits. Under Peter Dutton there will be fewer
00:43homes and higher prices. That's the difference between the two policies that were announced
00:49yesterday. Two policies, only one of which addresses supply. You need to address supply
00:56of housing if you're going to deal with prices and if you are going to deal with the fallout
01:03that's been there from years of neglect.
01:05The Prime Minister defended criticism from economists who argue the policy could add more
01:09fuel to a property market already running red hot. He also responded to delays to new
01:14builds completed under his government's build to rent scheme.
01:17We are without question the boldest and most ambitious Australian government on housing that
01:22we have had in this country since the Second World War.
01:25The Labor brand is strong in South Australia and Mr Albanese's mission here is to retain
01:29the key seat of Ruth B. It won off the coalition in 2022 and expand his party's red wall by turning
01:35the Liberal stronghold of Sturt from blue to red.
01:38The Prime Minister also made a quick stop to Mama's Kachina in Adelaide where he tapped into
01:43Italian roots with a $95,000 announcement to support a local non-for-profit that provides
01:48home-cooked meals to the elderly and people with disabilities. The location of this press
01:53stop though, no accident. It's in the ultra-marginal seat of Sturt that Labor is pretty confident
01:58it can turn from a coalition stronghold into a Labor seat.
02:02A week out before early polling begins, Labor is really trying to cement its policy message
02:08on housing. The political equation is pretty clear here. By giving Australians more of an
02:13opportunity to buy a house to get a roof over their head, they'll hopefully retain the keys to the lodge.