Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:49): Senator Singh, welcome back. It is very nice to see you back from the United Nations. It is good to see you, Senator Singh, having returned from New York, back in the bosom of your own party—unlike Senator Bernardi, your bench mate at the United Nations General Assembly. Nevertheless, I am sure you had a very good time. Senator Singh, you asked me about housing affordability. My advice, as I said to Senator Cameron in my answer to his question earlier on, is the one thing people who want to get into the housing market ought to make sure they never do is vote Labor, because the Labor Party has presided over policies which have, not only in the Sydney market but particularly in the Sydney market, driven up house prices. The PRESIDENT: Senator Cameron, on a point of order. Senator Cameron: I raise a point of order on relevance. It was a clear question, an unequivocal question: who is right, the Prime Minister or the Treasurer? The Attorney-General has not gone near that question. He should address the question. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the Attorney-General of the question. The Attorney-General will have one minute and one second in which to respond. Senator BRANDIS: As I said in my answer to Senator Cameron's question, the real issue, which economists have recognised across the board in relation to housing affordability, is primarily the issue of supply. That is an issue about which both the Prime Minister and the Treasurer have commented on many times. Senator Singh, you do not need to listen to the voices of political leaders when you can listen to the observations of the Governor of the Reserve Bank, which I quoted in answer to your colleague Senator Cameron. Or you can listen to the observations of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Fraser, who I also quoted in response to your colleague Senator Cameron. In the Sydney market, for all of those long years of Labor government, particularly under the 10 lost years when Mr Bob Carr was the Premier, there was virtually no land released in Sydney for— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Singh, a supplementary question.