Thursday, 4 December 2025

 Sonya KILKENNY (Carrum – Attorney-General, Minister for Planning) (14:24): Today I want to make something unmistakeably clear. In this Parliament on housing there are two parties: one that builds and one that blocks. On one side is the Allan Labor government, a government delivering more homes for Victorians, especially young Victorians, who want and deserve a fair shot at owning or renting a place of their own. We have set ambitious targets for every council. We are unlocking well-located homes around train stations and tram stops close to jobs, services and opportunity. We are cutting red tape and making sure that we are not just building homes; we are building communities with the parks, schools, kinders and services that growing communities need. And on the other side is a party that campaigns against homes for millennials, a party that runs petitions and rallies against the very homes Victorians need, a party that just says no.

While Labor rebuilds public housing estates into safe, modern, dignified communities, there are others who run to the front gate with a camera crew, calling these projects overdevelopment and slums before a single brick is laid, attacking the homes and the people who will live in them. Labor is delivering the biggest overhaul of planning rules in decades, cutting delays so good projects move faster and more homes get built sooner. The others hold press conferences demanding less red tape and then come in here and vote against every single streamlining reform, a party of contradictions and coups, never solutions. Under Labor, Victoria is leading the nation in homes approved and homes built, homes with backyards, townhouses and duplexes, low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise – real action, real housing choice. Labor is on the side of every Victorian who wants more homes and more opportunity.