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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Coalition to campaign on balancing housing construction and migration, says Andrew Bragg

Andrew Bragg speaking to the media with Sussan Ley looking on
Senator Andrew Bragg says that home ownership and housing construction completion, linked to net migration, will be a core election issue for the Coalition. Photograph: Paul Braven/AAP

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, will make home ownership a “core” election issue by linking the net migration intake to housing completions, Senator Andrew Bragg says.

Bragg, appointed shadow assistant minister for housing affordability in the March reshuffle, argued in a speech to the Sydney Institute on Tuesday that the Coalition is best able to address the “train wreck” imbalance between migration and housing construction.

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