Senate debates

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Matters of Urgency

Morrison Government: Housing

4:38 pm

Photo of Carol BrownCarol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today 28 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot. As a result, I inform the Senate that the following letter from Senator McKim proposing a matter of urgency was chosen:

There is a housing crisis in Australia and the Morrison Government is refusing to fix it.

Is the proposal supported?

More than the number of senators required by the standing orders having risen in their places—

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