Coalition split on Andrew Bragg speech as South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan urges colleagues to ‘follow his lead’

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg proposed two major shifts on Wednesday, per The Guardian: slashing the national construction code and cutting net overseas migration from about three hundred thousand to below one hundred eighty thousand annually. Colleague Andrew McLachlan publicly backed the move—but the speech has divided the Coalition. Opposition leader Angus Taylor rebuked it, with some senior colleagues dismissing Bragg's figures as personal views and others calling the critical response an overreaction.

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