‘Less money for health and education’: Albanese slams Coalition threat to cut GST unless states build housing

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg says the Coalition needs to ‘hit the states hard where it hurts’ to accelerate the construction of homes to help housing affordability. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The Greens and the Coalition are opening up new fronts in the battle over housing policy, as the government continues to struggle to get its agenda through the Senate.

The shadow assistant spokesperson for home ownership, Andrew Bragg, opened the door for a future Coalition government to withhold funding to states and local governments unless house building was accelerated.