Home Guarantee Scheme

Jessica Collins

At the request of Senator Bragg, I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) on 27 August 2025, the Senate agreed to order for the production of documents no. 119, relating to the Home Guarantee Scheme, requiring the Minister representing the Treasurer to comply with the order by no later than midday on Tuesday, 2 September 2025,

(ii) since that order was agreed to, the Senate has agreed to a further 3 motions concerning the minister's failure to comply with the order, rejected the public interest immunity claim raised by the Minister for Housing and required the Minister representing the Minister for Housing to attend the Senate to provide an explanation of the failure to comply with the order,

(iii) on 5 March 2026, pursuant to an order agreed to by the Senate on 4 March 2026, the Minister representing the Minister for Housing attended the Senate to provide an explanation of the failure to comply with the order,

(iv) the explanation provided by the minister was not satisfactory and did not address the minister's failure to comply with the order, and

(v) the order has still not been complied with; and

(b) requires that the Minister representing the Minister for Housing attend the Senate after the consideration of private senators' bills on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, to provide a further explanation, of no more than 5 minutes, of the failure to comply with the order or to respond in full to the order, and that:

(i) any senator may move to take note of the explanation, and

(ii) any such motion may be debated for no longer than 30 minutes and shall have precedence over all other business until determined, and senators may speak to the motion for not more than 5 minutes each.

Murray Watt

I seek leave to make a short statement—I'd say 30 seconds.

Leave granted.

The government will be opposing this motion. In response to order 119, the government has already provided exactly what Senator Bragg asked for. The modelling of contingent liabilities of the Home Guarantee Scheme is laid out for him in black and white in the documents already produced. Senator Bragg believes that the Prime Minister has previously referred to the conducted modelling in public forums and that this makes the minister's PII claims over other sections of these documents irrelevant. The Prime Minister has referred publicly to home price impact modelling which shows a very, very minor impact to home prices of around half a per cent over six years. (Time expired)

Slade Brockman

The question now is that the motion moved by Senator Collins at the request of Senator Bragg be agreed to.