How housing became a generational budget battleground
YOUNG homeowner Mika likes Jim Chalmers’ housing policies, but the treasurer’s preferred choice of coffee is a problem.“Does anyone know how to make a long black?” she asks media and ministerial staff waiting in her small Canberra apartment while her husband Matt busies himself with the coffee machine. The couple are hosting the treasurer and prime minister at a media event designed to sell Labor’s most controversial federal budget since coming to power. Their excitable pet dog, one-and-a-half-year-old golden retriever Pikelet, bounds around the c