Home Guarantee Scheme

Wendy Askew

On behalf of Senator Bragg, I move:

That—

(a) the Senate notes that:

(i) order for the production of documents no. 372, relating to users accessing the Home Guarantee Scheme, required the Minister representing the Minister for Housing to comply with the order by midday on Thursday, 5 March 2026, and

(ii) the order has not been complied with;

(b) the Senate requires the Minister representing the Minister for Housing to comply with the order by no later than midday on Monday, 30 March 2026; and

(c) if the order has still not been fully complied with by midday on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, the Minister representing the Minister for Housing be required to attend the Senate at the start of proceedings on the Tuesday of each sitting week, starting with, Tuesday, 12 May 2026, to provide an explanation, of no more than 5 minutes, of the failure to comply with 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, shall have precedence over all other business until determined, and senators may speak to the motion for not more than 5 minutes each.

Katy Gallagher

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines

Leave is granted for one minute.

Katy Gallagher

The government will be opposing this motion. This order seeks aggregate data of users accessing the Home Guarantee Scheme since 1 October 2024. While the motion as agreed to by the Senate gave a period of less than 24 hours to produce more than a year's worth of data for about 230,000 Australians—including age brackets, individual income, household income, occupation group, property purchase prices, single or joint borrower status and loan-to-value ratio—I'm happy to advise the documents relating to this order have been tabled this morning.

Sue Lines

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 462 standing in the name of Senator Bragg and moved by Senator Askew be agreed to.