Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

By way of explanation, this motion relates to those findings of a very long and detailed Senate inquiry report into housing affordability that was tabled in May of last year. It had good, strong participation by all sides of this chamber—government, opposition and crossbench. I will get to the consensus recommendations in a moment, but what we found, in my view, was that the Abbott government at the time had pursued effectively a scorched earth policy on housing affordability. They had taken and burned to the ground everything that the previous government—with the support of the crossbench and the Australian Greens—had put into play around homelessness and housing affordability.

There were nine recommendations that coalition senators did find it in their hearts to support. This motion seeks any clarification from the government if anything at all has been done by this government on those nine consensus recommendations that coalition senators reported. It is unforgivable that we have heard nothing from the government on the findings of this report. (Time expired)