In the face of those attacks from Labor, the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been trying to keep focused on housing policy today. Touring another residential development, this time in Melbourne’s east.
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00:00Peter Dutton, again keen to talk about housing today, this time a little closer to the city.
00:07We're at some townhouses in the seat of Aston and the suburb of Wonturnah.
00:11This is the other part of the Australian dream Peter Dutton wants to sell young Australians.
00:15Over the last couple of days we've been on the outskirts of Melbourne looking at houses with backyards in new housing estates, urban greenfields.
00:22This time it's townhouses that young Australians can buy off the plan.
00:27Peter Dutton believes that his tax deduction on mortgage interest for first home buyers, which is limited to new homes, can make developments like this more feasible.
00:35We heard from developers who said that if they can sell off the plan they find it easier to get projects off the ground.
00:41With that extra tax incentive Peter Dutton is hoping that first home buyers will be attracted to places like this.
00:48We're going to increase supply, we're also going to make sure, as we said on the weekend and repeated this policy again,
00:55allow young Australians to access their super so that they can get the deposit together.
00:59We're going to stop foreigners from purchasing homes for a two year period so that young Australians don't have to compete in that market with foreigners who are cashed up.
01:10I also want to make sure that we can help young Australians achieve their dream through our tax deductibility policy which we announced at the weekend.
01:21Next, the campaign is headed to Sydney where Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will meet tonight in the second leaders debate hosted by the ABC in its Parramatta studios.
01:30There are plenty of issues to be canvassed but in a week that's been all about housing it may be those competing visions that take centre stage.
01:37We've got a lot of resources to be able to take centre stage.
01:40We've got a lot of opportunities to be able to do with the neighbours and the neighbours to make sure that they're going to have a better place and that they're not going to be able to manage their dreams.
01:42We've got a lot of opportunities to be able to, but we're going to have a full opportunity for them to take centre stage.