The ACT government is making little headway in its bid to convince the Commonwealth to wipe the territory’s decades-old housing debt.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr has been publicly lobbying the federal government to waive the ACT’s $115 million housing debt, after it agreed in September to set aside Tasmania’s own state housing debt.
South Australia had hundreds of millions of dollars in social housing debts to the Commonwealth waived in 2013.
Mr Barr met with federal housing minister Michael Sukkar soon after the Tasmanian deal was struck to push the ACT’s case for similar treatment.
But his efforts have so far come to nothing.
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Source: The Canberra Times
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