Wednesday, 18 March 2026

 Jacinta ALLAN (Bendigo East – Premier) (14:07): Today we released the next stage of our plan to build more homes for more young Victorians – a plan to build homes right across the state but particularly in the inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne, particularly in those locations. You know what, for too long, for too many years, these suburbs have been blocked for young people moving in and getting their first home. We are not only unblocking the laws, we are unlocking the space for 300,000 more homes, cutting red tape, making it quicker and easier.

Members interjecting.

The SPEAKER: There is too much interjecting across the chamber. I can barely hear the Premier. The member for Caulfield and the Leader of the House will cease having a conversation across the table.

Jacinta ALLAN: We are getting on and getting more millennials and young people into homes, and we are doing that at a time when there are some who have called our plan radical. There are some who have said they would rip it up. I say this to you: what is radical about getting a young person into a home? What is radical about building that home near jobs, near great public transport and near schools for their kids to go and get a great public education? What is radical about giving families a choice about living in the communities they love, near the people that they love? As we have seen today, it is the lovers of the status quo. It is the Liberal Party and those opposite. They love the status quo, but young people do not, because that status quo has stopped them from getting into homes where they want to live. It is only our Labor government who has the new solutions to get homes built more quickly right across Victoria but particularly in those locations that are well serviced by public transport, jobs and services in Melbourne.