In his own words: Angus Taylor interview transcript
A transcript of Capital Brief's interview with Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor.
The transcript of this interview between Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor and economics correspondent Jennifer Duke and political correspondent Finn McHugh has been edited for length, clarity and readability.
With the two-year reduction in migration how would you go about fixing the housing supply issues in the meantime. Is there a bigger project within that two-year period?
Just to be clear: what we were suggesting about the net overseas migration is that there’d be a sharp cut in year one, and then three years [before getting] back to back up. Still at a lower level than was anticipated by Labor's policies, but obviously moderating over time as you [bring it] back.
The first thing is, you're allowing the current supply to continue to refill the gap. It's not so different from what we actually saw in Sydney, when I became cities minister. We had this position where we got way behind. Depending on whose numbers you used [it was] 40,000 houses, or something like that. We realised that we needed to try to get some catch up. So this is a very, very similar situation, where it's just got behind. So the challenge is in the short term. Trying to get more houses built quickly is hard.
