Live: Super for housing under review: Bragg

Andrew Bragg says the Coalition is continuing to look at ways people could use their superannuation to help them afford a home. Follow all the updates in our live blog. Tue 8 Sep 2026 at 7:06amTue 8 Sep 2026 at 7:06amSport and community fund overwhelmingly favoured LaborAn "invite-only" grants program was overwhelmingly directed into safe Labor seats and marginal seats the party wanted to win at the 2025 federal election, a Centre for Public Integrity investigation of the $560 million program has concluded.While projects in safe and marginal Labor seats sometimes received grants worth tens of millions of dollars, 45 electorates were not invited to the Major and Local Community Infrastructure (MLCI) Program and received no funding.Labor promised more than half-a-billion dollars in upgrades to sports facilities, parks and other community infrastructure at the election, and Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has said the MLCI was set up to pay for those promises.An examination of the more than 220 programs invited to apply found 73 per cent of funds went to seats notionally held by Labor, compared to 23 per cent to Coalition-held seats, and 4 per cent to all others.When broken down by how safe or marginal a seat was $493 million of the $560 million fund went to safe, fairly safe or competitive seats for Labor — while just $66 million went to seats where Labor was not competitive.Read more of this exclusive report at the link below. Tue 8 Sep 2026 at 7:01amTue 8 Sep 2026 at 7:01amBragg reviews policy ideas to let people access super for housingThe federal opposition's housing spokesman Andrew Bragg says the Coalition is continuing to look at ways people could use their superannuation to help afford a home.One Nation yesterday unveiled its controversial plan to allow renters and mortgage holders to take home three per cent of their future super contributions.Bragg says the Coalition is reviewing policy ideas, including letting people use their super to offset their mortgage or as collateral for a loan, to help tackle concerns more Australians won't own homes by the time they retire.He says there's no official proposal on the table, but confirmed "these policies are under review by the party".However, a party spokesperson has denied reports on news.com.au that the options are under consideration.The ideas have previously been discussed as part of Senate committee work Bragg chaired in 2024.Tue 8 Sep 2026 at 6:52amTue 8 Sep 2026 at 6:52amGood morning 👋Welcome to our politics live blog. I'm Courtney Gould from the ABC's Parliament House team, here to guide you through the day.Social media continues to be the focus for the government as Communication Minister Anika Wells prepares to unveil the exposure draft for its long-awaited digital duty of care bill later today. That's the legislation that's expected to include the opt-out system for social media algorithms.It's not going to be all smooth sailing for Wells as the Coalition continues to raise concerns it could amount to censorship.Elsewhere, the fallout from One Nation reigniting the superannuation wars yesterday will roll into today.The sun is up friends and so are we, so let's get blogging!!!