QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:19): The Australian Greens political party—always positive, always looking for solutions. You would have thought that, after the experience of 2025, when this sort of puerile negativity, this hostility to state action in the housing market from the Australian Greens political party, delivered them the result they got, they might have just taken pause for a moment to consider the electoral and policy implications of what it is they've been saying—but, clearly, no.

Clearly, they're going to continue on the trajectory of relentless negativity, of hostility to government action in this area— The PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, I am going to draw you back to Senator Pocock's question. Senator AYRES: There's certainly a government here with a big agenda in housing. There are certainly, as you pointed to, the proper processes of government unfolding.

An Australian National Audit Office process is nothing to be feared; it is a good thing. They do 50 of them every year, and I welcome the ANAO into my department. I want them to be engaged with all of the agencies that I have responsibility for, because—do you know what?—they improve the performance of government.

That is a good thing. We don't have a glass jaw. What we're focused on doing is building houses, building houses in every electorate, including in Brisbane and including in Griffith—all of these places where homes are being built.

The PRESIDENT: Senator Pocock, first supplementary?