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Episode Synopsis
Senator Andrew Bragg and economist Peter Tulip join Michael Stutchbury for a wide-ranging conversation on Australia’s housing crisis, the politics of supply, and the future of home ownership. Senator Bragg outlines a centre-right vision for reviving the Australian dream, arguing that housing policy should prioritise freeing up land, cutting red tape, and empowering the private sector to build. Tulip, whose research has reshaped the national debate, examines why zoning restrictions, construction bottlenecks, and infrastructure delays have made housing increasingly unattainable for younger Australians.
This discussion explores the causes and consequences of Australia’s housing shortage: soaring construction costs, record migration, stalled supply, and the interaction between demand-side subsidies and house prices. Bragg critiques Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund, expanded 5% deposit scheme, and regulatory approach, questioning whether these measures inadvertently inflate prices rather than improve affordability. Tulip contrasts these views with economic evidence showing that planning reform, density, and infrastructure provision are crucial to increasing supply — and highlights surprising areas of bipartisan agreement that have emerged in recent years.
Despite their shared commitment to increasing housing supply, Bragg and Tulip offer contrasting perspectives on key questions: Should governments play a larger role in public and community housing, or should policy overwhelmingly rely on markets? Do deposit guarantees and super-for-housing empower first-home buyers or simply push prices higher? And can the political system overcome entrenched NIMBY resistance to allow the density required to bring prices down? The conversation reveals a genuine debate within centre-right thinking — Bragg’s call for an “unabashed YIMBY” movement meets Tulip’s economic analysis of migration, productivity, and supply-side reform. Together, they examine red tape in the National Construction Code, the tradie shortage, the politics of leafy-suburb resistance, and the risk that declining home ownership poses to Australia’s social contract. This is a candid exchange that doesn’t shy away from hard policy disagreements or the urgency of the crisis.
Senator Andrew Bragg is the Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness and Shadow Minister for Productivity and Deregulation, known for his advocacy of housing supply, deregulation, and intergenerational fairness. Peter Tulip is Chief Economist at the Centre for Independent Studies and one of Australia’s leading housing policy researchers, whose work on zoning and supply constraints has shaped national debate.
This event was presented by the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia. Recorded live at CIS’s Macquarie Street lunch forum.
This discussion explores the causes and consequences of Australia’s housing shortage: soaring construction costs, record migration, stalled supply, and the interaction between demand-side subsidies and house prices. Bragg critiques Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund, expanded 5% deposit scheme, and regulatory approach, questioning whether these measures inadvertently inflate prices rather than improve affordability. Tulip contrasts these views with economic evidence showing that planning reform, density, and infrastructure provision are crucial to increasing supply — and highlights surprising areas of bipartisan agreement that have emerged in recent years.
Despite their shared commitment to increasing housing supply, Bragg and Tulip offer contrasting perspectives on key questions: Should governments play a larger role in public and community housing, or should policy overwhelmingly rely on markets? Do deposit guarantees and super-for-housing empower first-home buyers or simply push prices higher? And can the political system overcome entrenched NIMBY resistance to allow the density required to bring prices down? The conversation reveals a genuine debate within centre-right thinking — Bragg’s call for an “unabashed YIMBY” movement meets Tulip’s economic analysis of migration, productivity, and supply-side reform. Together, they examine red tape in the National Construction Code, the tradie shortage, the politics of leafy-suburb resistance, and the risk that declining home ownership poses to Australia’s social contract. This is a candid exchange that doesn’t shy away from hard policy disagreements or the urgency of the crisis.
Senator Andrew Bragg is the Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness and Shadow Minister for Productivity and Deregulation, known for his advocacy of housing supply, deregulation, and intergenerational fairness. Peter Tulip is Chief Economist at the Centre for Independent Studies and one of Australia’s leading housing policy researchers, whose work on zoning and supply constraints has shaped national debate.
This event was presented by the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia. Recorded live at CIS’s Macquarie Street lunch forum.
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