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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Bragg says lower-income earners should accept substandard housing as colleagues rebuke his migration target

Andrew Bragg
Andrew Bragg proposed condensing the National Construction Code from nearly 2,000 pages to just 80 to get more ‘basic and safe’ homes built, doing away with ‘optional extras’ such as compulsory energy efficiency and accessibility measures. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Andrew Bragg has agreed that lower-income Australians should accept poorly built housing in a bid to boost the number of dwellings built nationally, amid growing internal fallout continues over his proposal to cap net migration to modern historic lows.

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, and several of Bragg’s colleagues publicly cautioned the NSW Liberal moderate for going off script in his speech on Wednesday as the Nationals warned against any changes to working holiday visas.

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