Anthony Albanese buys $4.3 million property on NSW Central Coast

ABC NEWS (Australia)

It's been revealed the Prime Minister, and his fiancée have recently bought a costal home worth more than 4-million dollars. The decision has caused rumblings within Anthony Albanese’s party, with one source likening the move to Scott Morrison’s holiday in Hawaii during the black summer bushfires.

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00:00From a field of dreams for future homeowners.

00:06This is about increasing housing supply.

00:09To a new dream home for the Prime Minister and his fiancée.

00:13When your relationship changes, your life changes and you make decisions.

00:19Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Hayden will soon settle on this clifftop home on

00:24the New South Wales central coast.

00:29It cost $4.3 million, pulling attention from an announcement of 1,100 new homes in Queensland

00:37and placing the PM on the defensive.

00:39I also know what it's like to struggle.

00:43My mum lived in the one public housing that she was born in for all of her 65 years.

00:49The opposition leader happy to sit back.

00:51I wish he and Jodie well and they're obviously planning for the next stage of life post-politics

00:56and I wish them well in that.

00:58Another political opponent willing to weigh in.

01:01We've got a Labor government with a property investor Prime Minister who refuses to make

01:05any changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount.

01:09The Greens and the Coalition continue to block the government's signature housing policy

01:13in Parliament.

01:14But it's this purchase many will remember.

01:17When we have a housing crisis, a rental crisis, it's just kind of a little bit tone deaf.

01:23I don't think I could, so good on him.

01:26The Prime Minister isn't the first and won't be the last politician to buy a high-end home.

01:31But the purchase has divided Labor ranks.

01:34Some see no issue.

01:36But one senior source has compared the PM's decision to buy a luxury home now to Scott

01:41Morrison's call to head overseas during the Black Summer bushfires, labelling this Anthony

01:46Albanese's Hawaii moment.

01:49I don't think voters or people in the Australian community take great interest in the personal

01:54housing arrangements of political leaders.

01:57I don't spend a lot of time looking at the personal issues and private property purchases

02:03of members of Parliament.

02:04This is a private matter for the Prime Minister.

02:06That may continue to play out in public.

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