The Coalition will directly link Australia’s temporary immigration intake to the number of new homes built around the country, using housing completion figures as a hard ceiling for overseas arrivals. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor , will outline the plan to dramatically cut the number of migrants arriving into the country in his budget reply speech on Thursday night, while also promising a new $5bn housing infrastructure fund and a weakening of the national construction code to speed up building and reduce cost. “This is about mass migration running ahead of the homes, roads, hospitals, schools and services Australia can provide,” Taylor will tell parliament, according to a preview of the speech. Under a Coalition government, the minister for housing would be required to give an annual report on the number of new homes completed in the previous 12 months. That number would be used to limit net overseas migration into the country.…