Mr GREG WARREN (Campbelltown) (18:14): By leave: I briefly contribute because I feel it is appropriate that we correct the record and put the facts on the table. I acknowledge the contribution of the member for Newtown about the importance of affordable housing. It is so important, particularly when you look at some of the people in our communities across New South Wales who have been marginalised. Let me be very clear about this. The Premier, the planning Minister and all of my colleagues have made clear that we want to have a more equitable approach to housing supply in New South Wales. All the economists we read, whether inThe Daily Telegraph,The AustralianFinancial Review orTheGuardian or on social media, are saying that one of the biggest challenges we have is affordability, and supply is one of the keys to achieving that. Again I come back to the point made by the member for Newtown. We want to have affordable housing. Supply is very much a part of that. Planning Minister Scully has made that point. My friend the Minister and member for Macquarie Fields is doing a lot of work in that space.

In our area, out in south-western Sydney, we have experienced that problem of lack of investment. We experienced it for over 12 years because of the growing disparity between approvals for houses and investment in infrastructure. Without adequate investment, people who built houses in those areas were not able to build a community. That is what this Government's agenda is about. That is what this motion is about. It is about getting it right, making it fair and equitable. No one member knows that better than the others, because we all have growth in our communities. We are all experiencing it. But let us do it together. Best outcomes are achieved by working together. We can find the balance. That is the Government's agenda. But we need to see better and more equitable investment in western and south-western Sydney. I know that the Minister is working hard on that. He did so as a local member, and he has done so in the Cabinet along with all the colleagues he has there.

I refer to the member for Camden's point. I was once privileged to be the Mayor of Camden, and I was there during the growth of the centres of Oran Park and Gregory Hills. In fact, my picture is in the McDonald's in Gregory Hills. When I opened that, I convinced my youngest son that Gregory Hills was named after me. But then he got older and worked out that it was not. All jokes aside, this debate is about having an equitable placement and a good plan for the allocation of urban housing, whilst complementing it with the services and infrastructure people need and deserve. Quite frankly, it is one thing to build a house or to construct a housing development, but it is a whole other story to build a community. That is what we need to be doing, and I know that that is this Government's agenda. I thank the House.