Meet Julie Collins: queen of housing affordability lies

Wednesday 10 May 2023

Federal Housing Minister, Julie Collins, took to Sky News on Wednesday to spruik the Albanese Government’s piss weak Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), which plans to help fund 30,000 additional social and affordable rental homes:

Collins claimed that Australia is facing a “supply issue” with housing that has been going on for a long time.

“We have less homes per 1,000 people in Australia than the OECD average”, Collins told Question Time.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.