National Housing Accord

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:35): My question is to the Minister for Planning. Has the government received or sought advice about the state's eligibility to receive performance-based funding from the commonwealth under the National Housing Accord? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr TELFER: At national cabinet in August 2023, the commonwealth announced $3 billion in incentive payments to states and territories that deliver more than their share of a million new homes. Data released by Master Builders Australia on 9 April suggests that South Australia will underperform its target by 33 per cent.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Planning) (14:36): Of course, we've been in discussion with industry, with the Master Builders themselves, with the HIA and with the UDIA. We are absolutely committed—absolutely committed—to providing not just land supply but development-ready land supply. One of the mistakes that has been made by previous governments, of all complexions, is that they have not looked at the critical element of development-ready land supply.

We are committed to doing that in the long term. That will help us meet these targets that have been set out by national cabinet. Previous governments have not set targets. Previous national governments have not put in resources. They have not had the housing HAFF fund. They have not put money into infrastructure. We have a federal government that is doing those things. We want to work with industry to meet those important targets, because we want young families to be able to buy their own homes. We want working class and young professional people to be able to rent in a rental market that is functioning. We want to provide regional South Australians with housing.

So, we have undertaken an enormous effort, not just to look at every piece of land that we can release. As I said before, we have 90 code amendments, the most that has ever been in the system, and 4,000 hectares currently under consideration for release. We have released, from memory, almost double what the previous government released in four years. We are doing the work to make sure that we can meet the targets the commonwealth sets for us, and we want to do that because we want to house South Australians.