House debates Questions without Notice

Economy

Thursday, 20 August 2026 House of Representatives

DF

David Farley Farrer, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

2:20 pm

My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, the assumptions in your May budget proved wildly, wildly wrong—wrong on rents, wrong on house prices and wrong about startups. Was it your intention to crash house prices, drive rents higher and defer investment, or did you simply fail to understand what your own budget policies would do?