Bragg says lower-income earners should accept substandard housing as colleagues rebuke his migration target

Angus Taylor publicly cautions NSW senator for diverging from opposition policy in National Press Club speech as Nationals warn against any changes to working holiday visas

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Andrew Bragg has agreed that lower-income Australians should accept poorly built housing in a bid to boost the number of dwellings built nationally, amid growing internal fallout continues over his https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/12/andrew-bragg-stands-by-proposed-migration-limits-even-as-liberal-colleagues-decline-to-back-him-in">proposal to cap net migration to modern historic lows.

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, and several of Bragg’s colleagues publicly cautioned the NSW Liberal moderate for going off script in his speech on Wednesday as the Nationals warned against any changes to working holiday visas.