Leaders continue campaigning in outer Melbourne suburbs today

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spent the morning in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, spruiking Labor’s housing policy.

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00:00Prime Minister Anthony Albanese campaigning at another construction site where he's trying

00:06to cement Labor's housing policy in voters' minds ahead of the lull of the Easter long

00:11weekend.

00:12Their pitch, throw open the front door to first home buyers with a $10 billion promise

00:16to build 100,000 new homes and cut years off the weight to own through a 5% deposit scheme.

00:22We have a plan for supply, not just for demand.

00:26And part of what we are doing on supply is right behind us here.

00:31The $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator program has seen over 700 homes built here in the

00:38suburbs of Melbourne and in regional Victoria.

00:42But there's a catch.

00:43Economists say this could push prices up even as the government frames it as a solution to

00:47rising costs.

00:48Where we are campaigning today is no accident.

00:51Menzies is the shadow housing minister, Michael Suker's electorate, that he holds on a nano

00:55margin of 0.02% and where Labor is seeking to evict him.

01:00Here in the outer metropolitan suburbs of Melbourne is where the election will be won and lost.

01:05Labor trying to convince the mortgage belt that the worst of the economic turbulence is

01:10the outcome of the murderous