Homelessness Week 2025

The Coalition acknowledges the beginning of Homelessness Week 2025.

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The theme for Homelessness Week 2025 is “Homelessness Action Now”. The Coalition recognises, and pays tribute to, the enormous effort that many Australians give to improving the lives of homeless people around Australia. Many of those working on the frontline of this crisis give their time voluntarily. Our nation is made immeasurably better thanks to their kindness, and steadfast commitment, to those most vulnerable.

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It beggars belief that in 2025, thousands of Australians still sleep rough every night.

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Unfortunately, under Labor, homelessness is getting worse not better.

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Indeed, recent reporting in the ABC revealed the scope of the government’s failures, with Homelessness Australia declaring the issue has reached its "worst levels in living memory.”

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How this could happen under a Labor Government focused on solving their housing crisis solely through the construction of social and affordable housing is beyond comprehension.

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Labor have failed Australians on housing. Under the previous Coalition Government, Australia was building almost 200,000 homes on average every year. This number has crashed to barely 170,000 under Labor.

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Labor’s signature housing fund, the Housing Australia Future Fund, has used $10 billion of taxpayer money to build 17 homes and buy 300.

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Labor’s housing policies are making Labor’s housing crisis worse. They are spending more money to build fewer homes. They have let down all Australians.

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The Coalition knows having a roof above one’s head is priority number one for personal and economic security.

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We are currently undertaking a review of our housing and homelessness policies, but are committed to getting more older Australians into secure homes, as well as women and children affected by domestic and family violence, our youth, Indigenous peoples, the long-term homeless, and individuals transitioning from institutions.

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Our commitment to sustained support will always be aimed at combatting the challenges of homelessness in our society beyond short-term fixes. 

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