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Housing minister denies supply efforts will fall short

The Albanese government has rejected warnings it has overestimated the effect of its new infrastructure spending on housing supply.

There’s a lot that goes into completion rates. What I can tell you is that government policy is going to lift those numbers by 420,000, based off what they would otherwise be. That’s what the Treasury modelling tells us.

When I look at countries like Britain or Canada or Germany or France, they got a hell of a problem over there, so I stick with what I said.

So, there’s certain countries I probably would ban them coming into Australia.