And as expected we start with…nothing good.

Sussan Ley, who spent the weekend pretending the Queensland LNP was behind her and David Littleproud isn’t dragging the Coalition further into electoral irrelevancy starts the questions off with:

Q: The biggest announcement out of last week’s Canberra Talk Fest was Labor’s partial adoption of a Coalition policy to freeze the construction code, which we developed to make it cheaper to build homes. And today Labor announced a revised Morrison Government policy which we developed to help Australians get into their first home with a smaller deposit. Prime Minister, why did it take a 3-day talk fest for you to realise Coalition policies work and Labor policies fail?

OKKKKKKKAAAAAYYYYYY Sussan.

Albanese says what you would expect, but for the first question of the new sitting week, this is pretty desperate.

Here is the start of Albanese’s answer (but then I had to resume rocking under my desk)

It’s very bold to say Coalition policies work when it comes to housing. Because most of the time they were in office they didn’t even bother to have a Housing Minister*.

We on this side of the House have a $43 billion Homes for Australia plan, almost every element of which wasn’t just opposed by those opposite, and the Greens’ members for a period of time in what I dubbed the Noalition.

They continued to oppose it and continue to oppose the announcements we made and this morning again today. Continue to oppose them.

Now, tonight indeed, in the Senate they’re debating a Coalition motion to abolish the Build to Rent program. Now that is a program to support increased private rentals, some 80,000 being built. That’s been developed with the Property Council. Those opposite hate it so much they’re moving a disallowance motion on it.

*This is actually a silly attack line and they really should drop it.