Ley declined to endorse Hastie’s comment when asked about it on Monday, instead blaming the government for not building the infrastructure needed to cope with a growing population. “I’m very confident that all of my colleagues are expressing strongly held views, and they do that in many ways,” she said. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy . We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.