NIGEL STAPLETON: That's the fundamental problem - restriction of supply. Even adding Commonwealth land, will help at the margin but the state governments irrespective of that could do substantially more about that, in fact resolve that without the Commonwealth doing anything.
The Commonwealth's role in this is relatively small, maybe they could be putting pressure on the State Governments to do a lot more, but is there a shortage of land out there? Well there's not, but courtesy of government policy there is significant restrictions on the actual amount of land that can be accessed.