How Housing Minister responded to vitriol after THAT radio blunder

Email Fresh from being hauled over the coals for a radio interview where she appeared to suggest rent was “a couple of hundred bucks” in Sydney, NSW’s youngest minister has made a surprise admission over the incident in a High Steaks interview.

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