QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:36): I welcome the Speaker to our parliament. We'll try and be polite now, sir. Senator Bragg, we fundamentally don't agree with the proposition you've put forward, which is that somehow it is a bad thing to assist first home buyers through this deposit scheme.

Of course, that is not the only thing the government is doing. The government also recognise the importance of increasing supply, which is why we have a very ambitious addition to housing supply as part of our policies. The PRESIDENT: Senator Bragg, first supplementary?