QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (14:42): Thanks again, Senator Hanson. As I said, this government has worked extremely hard over the last two or three years in particular to significantly reduce migration levels to much more sustainable levels. At the same time, we—unlike One Nation, unlike the Liberal Party, unlike the National Party—have supported increased investment in housing for the battlers that you pretend to care about.

They're the battlers who need homes, and they're the battlers who you've voted against getting new homes funded by the government. We make no apologies for the fact that we had to reduce migration numbers. They were unsustainably high post the COVID epidemic and post the rorts in the system that were left behind by the former coalition government.

The changes that we have made are bringing migration back to a much more sustainable level than it has been at. The question for people like Senator Hanson is how they intend to obtain the hospital workers, the aged-care workers and the workers in various other industries that come from migrant backgrounds— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson, second supplementary?