National Housing Accord

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (15:00): My question is to the Minister for Housing. How many homes does South Australia need to build to meet our component of the National Housing Accord targets? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr TELFER: The National Housing Accord committed to 1.2 million homes over five years, yet the South Australian government is yet to publicly track its own performance against that target.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (15:01): Mr Speaker, I will tell you some numbers that the honourable member should be aware of and informed of. This is a government of supply. If you look at the ABS data for just the September quarter: residential work up 1.9 per cent for the quarter to 1.7 billion, 21 per cent higher than a year earlier. And then, if you look at the data of completions: more completions than ever before—more completions than ever before—12,692. But what's important about that is the trifecta of numbers that it comes with. Commencements: 13,172, under construction: 14,311, and there has never been a better trifecta of construction in this state's history.

We are not going to do what you did, which was to pump all this demand into a system with no supply. We are focused on supply. If you look at the code amendments, as the Premier said: 31 planning code amendments done, rezoned, finished; 15,131 hectares of land; approximately 20,000 allotments, including Concordia away, Onkaparinga Heights away, Thebarton Brewery and many, many others. But, of course, we are not just going to do that. We are going to put water pipes and water infrastructure in the ground—in the ground—29,067 metres of pipe. Do you know how much more pipeline that is than you put in? About 29,067 metres of pipe; that's how much more pipe it is.

We have executed 234 developer agreements, a record number of agreements, for a record number of allotments, 8,244 allotments, across the state. In fact, 2024-25 was the highest year of DAFIs since they were first recorded in 2012-13. Of course, it's not just that. We are focused on getting the Urban Renewal Authority, Renewal SA, out and about and developing homes. What your stated policy is is just shutting up shop, which is what you did when you were in government. You had no role for Renewal SA, no role in the regions, no role in the city. You just stepped back, you just took your foot off the accelerator, no forward pipeline, again, of government projects.

We've got them in Playford Alive, we've got them in Prospect and we've got them in Southwark. We have civil work in Noarlunga. Anywhere you go—Seaton—you can see demolition, you can see civil works, you can see construction, you can see slabs going down. Whatever part of the housing, infrastructure and building continuum the member for Flinders wants to see, any bit of it he wants to see, he can just drive around Adelaide and see it.

The most important thing is I meet young South Australians—every time we do one of these announcements, we meet a young couple or a young South Australian who is happy to get a home, who is getting their first home. In Playford Alive, we met a young couple: he was a butcher and she worked in business administration. They were living in their parents-in-law's garage to save the money for a deposit in Playford Alive.

The other day when I was with the Premier at the Market Square site, a fellow walked past me and said, 'G'day Nick'. I said, 'Do we know each other?' He said, 'Yeah, you came out and opened my home in Seacombe Gardens' with the Minister for Human Services. She would have undertaken that with the Housing Trust. We are putting homes on the ground.