Clare O’Neil is the Federal Member for Hotham and Australia’s Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness, and Minister for Cities. Her path into politics started in Melbourne’s south-east, where she grew up and later studied law and history at Monash University. While still at university, she entered local government and became the youngest female mayor in Australian history at age 24. She later received a Fulbright Scholarship to complete a Master of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, before spending time in the private sector as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and advising the Commonwealth Treasurer.
Since her election to Federal Parliament in 2013, she has represented Hotham, one of Australia’s most vibrant and multicultural communities. After previously serving as the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Cyber Security, her focus is now entirely on tackling Australia’s housing and cost-of-living crisis. She is spearheading the government’s ambitious housing supply agenda, working to build 1.2 million homes, and rolling out targeted infrastructure through the Treasury portfolio. When she is not in Parliament or working out of her electorate office in Oakleigh, she is at home in Melbourne raising my three kids alongside her husband and her six pets.
On Monday 25 May 2026, Clare conducted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit’s Australian Community. These are the questions that she answered.:
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