Minister for housing Clare O’Neil says she wants to ‘help renters who are a group of people I am intensely concerned about’.Minister for housing Clare O’Neil says she wants to ‘help renters who are a group of people I am intensely concerned about’.But with implementation of Labor’s existing $32bn of commitments a priority, O’Neil is offering more continuity than change in her new portfolio, which
O’Neil, who exited the politically fraught home affairs role in the reshuffle, said the Australian housing crisis was the “result of 30 years of under-investment by all levels of government”.O’Neil blamed the Coalition for the commonwealth “tapping out of this problem”, citing housing ministers not meeting “for the last five years of the Coalition government”.
“In particular,” O’Neil said she wanted to “help renters who are a group of people I am intensely concerned about at the moment”.