Moving on to the productivity round table in a couple of weeks – is Jim Chalmers looking at changing the capital gains tax discount?

That’s not why we have put this economic reform round-table together. It’s all about making our economy more resilient and more productive and our budget more sustainable. I expect and I hope that building more homes is one of the central considerations of the economic reform round-table.

I have been working very closely with Minister Clare O’Neil, with a number of people who will be at the round-table and with a whole range of people around the country. We have all got an interest in building more homes sooner.

That’s the Government’s priority.

The primary focus there I think at the round-table will be around how we speed up approvals and get the zoning for housing right because we desperately need more homes. The Commonwealth government has come to the table with tens of billions of dollars in investment. Our political opponents want to cut funding for housing but overwhelmingly, people want to see where there’s common ground to build more homes and that will be the focus