‘Very Sick’: Senator Defends Speech Amid Liberal Fury
Bragg said lower taxes and a broader GST could fund relief, while a new migration target and digital tax would reshape the opposition’s economic agenda.
- On Wednesday, Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg proposed aggressive policy shifts at the National Press Club, including tax cuts, a GST overhaul, and reducing net overseas migration from 300,000 to about 180,000.
- Bragg criticized the Liberal Party for contributing to Australia's economic malaise, telling the audience, "I wish I'd done more to stop the madness," while calling for bold policies to regain voter support.
- To fund tax reductions, Bragg proposed taxing multinational tech giants and slashing the National Construction Code from more than 2,000 pages to a document dictating standards around "basic amenity."
- Housing Minister Clare O'Neil labeled the speech "genuinely unhinged," telling ABC TV she feared the proposals were being presented as serious housing policy by the Liberal Party.
- Bragg's migration target remains contentious, as Liberal colleague Taylor nominated about 200,000, while Bragg acknowledged his proposed digital services tax faces fierce resistance from the Trump administration.
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‘Stop the madness’: Liberal eyes big tech, party policy
Big tech companies such as Meta and Facebook that shift profits offshore should be forced to pay billions of dollars more in tax, a coalition frontbencher says. In a wide-ranging address in Canberra, Andrew Bragg freelanced on policies outside his remit – from migration, multinational tax and the NDIS – as well as in his own housing portfolio, including a plan to slash the National Construction Code to 80 pages. Senator Bragg said the Liberal Pa…
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