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The former home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, is the guest on Annabel Crabb’s Kitchen Cabinet this evening, and has spoken of some of the behaviour she was subjected to during question time. She did not name the MPs involved, but the ABC reports she said:

I’d just be sitting there minding my own business and I would have the back of my neck breathed on …

And if I asked a question, it would be ‘that was a great question, thrusting and probing’.

But I went to politics and it’s the first time I’ve ever felt I had to fight for things simply because I was a woman.

It’s depressing. That is depressing. So I don’t know, to be honest, that it’s going to change in my lifetime. And that is really sad.

As I said, we already have homes under construction today. We also, of course, understand that this is not the only thing. We also have already given and provided the states with a $2bn social housing accelerator. They are providing plans now.

That money needs to be out the door within two years. We are starting to build homes across Australia from various measures that the government has already taken.