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O'Neil decries low-rent politics' on housing negotiations

Clare O'Neil says she understands there is a massive housing crisis in this country".

One of the frustrations I have just coming in fresh to this space, is that there's a lot of really sort of low-rent politics being played in all this. We don't want to get political outcomes in the parliament for political reasons.

I want to see more Australians in housing, and that is the big focus of our government.

I can tell you that my focus is not on the politicians here and it's not on the politics of this. It is about trying to get more homes for Australians.

And I'd say again, there's a lot of games being played in the parliament. I'm not interested in that. I don't go to bed at night thinking about politicians and what they might say and what they might do.