Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (15:05): Everybody deserves a decent home. What Senator Bragg said in his first speech was: Our tax system and broader policy settings must encourage foreign investment … He meant it then; he doesn't mean it now. It's a symbol of the sort of inconsistency and hyperpartisanship of this show. We have got straight to work from our first term in government. We took the Commonwealth from being a negligent bystander under the previous government to a government with the boldest and most ambitious housing program since the Second World War. In three years, we've invested $43 billion in housing, compared to just $5 billion in the previous long, turgid decade of negligence and absolute disengagement from building new homes for Australians. Senator Wong: I ask that further questions be placed on notice.