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Meanwhile Marles tells Shangri-La Dialogue delegates that ‘seabed is a battlefield’. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Housing minister denies supply efforts will fall short The Albanese government has rejected warnings it has overestimated the effect of its new infrastructure spending on housing supply. There’s a lot that goes into completion rates. What I can tell you is that government policy is going to lift those numbers by 420,000, based off what they would otherwise be. That’s what the Treasury modelling tells us. When I look at countries like Britain or Canada or Germany or France, they got a hell of a problem over there, so I stick with what I said. So, there’s certain countries I probably would ban them coming into Australia. Continue reading...