Anthony Albanese is in Tasmania announcing new funding for a newsprint paper mill in the marginal seat of Lyons.
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00:00We're in the seat of lines, as you've just said, and look, it's a fascinating seat because
00:05it's on a tiny, tiny margin held by Labor.
00:08It's less than 1%.
00:10That means it's super marginal.
00:11It means it's at risk for them.
00:12They're going to have to defend it.
00:14Now they've got candidate Rebecca White.
00:15If she sounds familiar to you, that's because she was the former Tasmanian ALP leader.
00:20We saw her today at the newsprint mill where the Prime Minister also announced a bit of
00:23a package to help that mill move into a decarbonised future, you might say, to reduce their emissions.
00:29They're going to electrify the mill so that it can be more environmentally friendly going
00:32forward.
00:34And we've also seen from the Prime Minister, though, talking a lot about his key policies,
00:38including things around housing, for instance, but also around Lions and Tasmania and the role
00:43that he sees Tasmania playing, he hopes, in the election of another Albanese Labor government.
00:49And you've also been in Adelaide today.
00:51The Prime Minister has been talking all things housing.
00:53How's that going?
00:54Yeah, that's right.
00:56We've been all over.
00:57Perth on Sunday, Adelaide this morning, Hobart today.
01:01And look, the main game, as you say, has been housing.
01:04They announced two major housing policies yesterday at their campaign launch.
01:08One of them, 100,000 homes to be built to be set aside specifically for home buyers.
01:13The other, an expansion of a program for first home buyers again to buy a place with a 5% deposit
01:19and skip over mortgage lenders insurance.
01:21Now, that is why we were out and about in Adelaide this morning looking at some of the developments
01:25that the government has been spruiking that are associated with their Housing Australia Future Fund.
01:29This has been a massive issue around the country, Jo.
01:32We've been in Cairns last week.
01:34I was in Brisbane as well.
01:35Key seats where the government really needs to either hold on to key voters or try and
01:40win seats back from parties like the Greens.
01:42And everybody is talking about housing.
01:44It doesn't matter whether you're in Cairns and you're a young, you know, visa holder trying
01:49to get your visa extension and you're working, but you can't find a rental.
01:52To folks who are actually working on some of these campaigns, Jo, people who are, you know,
01:55pretty well off, to be frank, who are still struggling to rent or buy their own place.
02:00So this issue is touching everybody and it's going to keep, I think, being a pretty important
02:04one right up until May the 3rd.
02:06Well, the Housing Australia Future Fund had a portion of that housing was about emergency
02:13accommodation for women and children escaping domestic violence.
02:16That was something that we pointed out when the Greens and the Liberals and the Nationals
02:21in the Senate held it up for month after month after month after month.
02:28We know that there is more needed to be done.
02:31That's why we've attempted to put in place programs earlier to make sure that we addressed
02:38those issues on top of the additional community workers that were put in place as well.
02:46Prime Minister Anthony Albanese there.
02:48He was speaking earlier this morning in Adelaide.
02:50And Jo, what he was specifically talking about there, the Housing Australia Future Fund,
02:54was in regard to domestic violence and women who are needing to flee violent partners.
02:58And we actually asked him what the government is going to do for people who don't benefit
03:02from these new first home buyers programs because they can't even get, of course, they can't
03:06get the money together for a 5% deposit because they're really struggling.
03:09And we asked about women who need to be able to live, for example, in emergency accommodation
03:14with their teenage sons.
03:15This is a big problem for women who need to escape domestic violence.
03:18There's a lot of shelters who won't be able to take them in if they have a young man with
03:21them.
03:22So that, like you just heard then, the half is going to be part of that, but we're going
03:25to keep pressing them for further answers on exactly how that's going to work if they're
03:28re-elected.