Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Parkes for his question. I acknowledge his great representation in this place of that large area of central and western New South Wales.

Indeed, I have seen the report that the honourable member refers to about public housing built in Moree under the previous Labor government's so-called Nation Building Program. That report indicated that many of these 62 units are actually falling apart. They are falling apart. The foundations are collapsing into the drainage and sewerage systems, windows are cracking—so much so that many of the 62 residents of those new units, funded by the previous Labor government, are having to move away from Moree to towns all over New South Wales because there is insufficient public housing.

In fact, why did this happen? This happened because—

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

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