QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATT (Queensland—Minister for the Environment and Water) (14:21): All Australians remember that it was the Greens political party who teamed up with One Nation and the coalition to block the provision of more public housing. I'll tell you who knows that more than anyone. Mr Max Chandler-Mather knows that it was the Greens political party who stopped housing being built.

Stephen Bates, the former member for Brisbane—he knows that it was the Greens political party, and a bloke called Adam Bandt certainly knows that it was the Greens political party who got in the way of public housing being built. That's why they are no longer members of this parliament. For the Greens to come in and, all of a sudden, cry about the needs of renters or cry about the needs of mortgage holders or cry about the housing situation that Australia finds itself in shows an even more staggering lack of self-awareness than we are used to from Senator Shoebridge.