Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia—Co-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (16:22): I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 990 standing in my name for today, concerning the implementation of committee report recommendations in relation to housing affordability. The PRESIDENT: Is this the amendment regarding the date? Senator LUDLAM: That is correct. Leave granted. Senator LUDLAM: This one was held over from last year, which is the reason for the amendment. I move the motion as amended: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the findings of the Economics References Committee in its report Out of reach? The Australian housing affordability challenge (received 8 May 2015) containing 40 recommendations, and (ii) that the Government supported nine of these recommendations, including: (A) to commit to ensuring adequate funding so that women and children escaping domestic violence are housed in secure and appropriate housing, (B) investigating housing supply bonds and tax increment financing to fund infrastructure for new housing developments, and (C) to look closely at its aged care policy in relation to the difficulties confronting older Australians in the rental market; and (b) calls on the Government to update the Senate on Wednesday, 3 February 2016, on any progress, if at all, on implementing those nine recommendations. I seek leave to make a brief statement. The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute. Senator LUDLAM: By way of explanation, this motion relates to those findings of a very long and detailed Senate inquiry report into housing affordability that was tabled in May of last year. It had good, strong participation by all sides of this chamber—government, opposition and crossbench. I will get to the consensus recommendations in a moment, but what we found, in my view, was that the Abbott government at the time had pursued effectively a scorched earth policy on housing affordability. They had taken and burned to the ground everything that the previous government—with the support of the crossbench and the Australian Greens—had put into play around homelessness and housing affordability. There were nine recommendations that coalition senators did find it in their hearts to support. This motion seeks any clarification from the government if anything at all has been done by this government on those nine consensus recommendations that coalition senators reported. It is unforgivable that we have heard nothing from the government on the findings of this report. (Time expired)