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

Senator says addressing the issue ‘will be at the core of our offering at the upcoming election’

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The opposition leader, Petter 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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