Wendy Askew (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

At the request of Senator Dean Smith, I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Friday, 10 February 2023, the following documents relating to the rollover of fixed rate mortgages to variable rate mortgages:

(a) any briefing notes, file notes, emails, correspondence or other records of interaction since 30 January 2023 between:

(i) the Department of the Treasury and the Treasurer or his office,

(ii) the Department of the Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Australia, or

(iii) the Department of the Treasury and the Australian Bureau of Statistics;

(iv) the Department of the Treasury and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

in relation to:

(b) data collection relating to new home loan lending, by fixed and variable interest rate;

(c) lending data from the Economic and Financial Statistics collection mentioning Australian mortgage holders due to switch from fixed to variable interest rates; and

(d) Reserve Bank of Australia internal data referring to a number or value of loans by interest rate type.

Question agreed to.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I ask that the government's opposition to motion No. 149 be recorded.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, certainly.