Coalition’s migration policy won’t be the ‘major driver’ to addressing the ‘housing disaster’

Independent MP Allegra Spender has discussed the Coalition and Albanese government’s policies to help address the housing crisis in Australia. This comes after Opposition leader Peter Dutton delivered the Coalition’s reply to the government’s budget on Thursday night. Mr Dutton’s budget reply speech centred on a plan to reduce immigration in order to free up housing supply, while the government focused on an energy subsidy to help drive inflation down. “The biggest focus for housing must be growing supply, and I think that’s where, I’d say, the government’s doing more and more focused on this than frankly what we heard so much from Dutton,” Ms Spender told Sky News Australia. “Which is being focused on super for housing, which does absolutely nothing for supply and probably not enough for people who need it, plus some tweaks in migration, which could have an impact but is not actually going to be the major driver to changing this housing disaster.”