BRISBANE, Queensland, Oct. 16 -- The Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet issued text of the following statement:

Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations

The Honourable Jarrod Bleijie

* More than $44.5 million in funding to fast track more than 7,200 new homes in the Mackay Region. * Residential Activation Fund has now unlocked more than 174,000 places to call home forQueenslanders. * TheCrisafulli Government is building Queensland's future after a decade of decline under Labor saw Queenslanders locked out of the housing market as vacancy rates plummeted to record-lows.

The Crisafulli Government is continuing to unlock housing supply quickly across Q...