By Nick Newling

Greens leader Larissa Waters has cast doubt on whether her party will support the government’s changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, after shadow treasurer Tim Wilson said the opposition would not support the policies.

“The Greens have been trying to fix the housing crisis for many, many decades under these terrible property investor tax perks, and we needed to see real reform tonight. Australians deserve that, but what they’ve seen instead is tinkering,” Waters said.

“On our calculations, this budget keeps in place 95 per cent of those property investor tax perks, and it does nothing for renters.…