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Labor faces a fight on housing. Could negative gearing reform help it get its groove back?

Housing affordability is an issue voters care about – and Labor needs more than just scares about Peter Dutton

The Guardian - AU

The Greens will play hardball with Labor on its next housing scheme. Albanese must offer sweeteners

Labor passed HAFF after a terse standoff between Albanese and the Greens. Any future housing reform will be even harder for the government to achieve without concessions.

Crikey

Politics has started up early this year and Labor will need all the housing wins it can get

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting Australians hard — and there’s no bigger cost of living than housing. So what is the government doing about it?

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‘Progressive’ Labor is dead — supporting stage three tax cuts is pointless

The public won’t reward Labor for sticking to an election policy when its multi-term strategy has failed across the board.

Crikey

Labor tells the many it can do nothing for them, while championing elite causes. Winning!

The Albanese government enforces military submission, market rule and progressive obsessions. No wonder the polls are tanking.

Crikey

The Australian Greens lost the rent cap battle, but will they win the war for votes?

Labor decried the party as ‘the axis of evil’ for siding with the Coalition, but pollster says their stance is a vote-winner

The Guardian - AU

The Greens were right to agree to pass Australia's Housing Future Fund bill – the case for further delay was weak

The Housing Australia Future Fund, or HAFF, will finally pass the Senate this week, most likely on Thursday.

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Greens vow to ‘keep fighting’ on housing as party takes aim at Labor’s help-to-buy scheme

Adam Bandt says Greens will continue to ‘use our power’ in parliament to push for rent caps despite agreeing to future fund

The Guardian - AU

A coup in Canberra as the Greens become the real opposition

The Greens took Labor to the overpriced woodshed in the six-month housing battle. But will the shift ultimately benefit the hard right?

Crikey

Michael Pascoe: The Greens’ HAFF-witted bid to make a complete farce of housing policy

The Greens have forced the Albanese Government to immediately spend an extra $2 billion at the very sharpest end of the housing crisis.

The New Daily

Labor under pressure to freeze rents as Greens and Coalition back inquiry into housing crisis

Greens urged to back government’s fund as advocates say housing is needed now and politicians need to ‘start taking action’

The Guardian - AU

Party posturing on housing could send us to an early election

The multi-pronged resistance to Labor’s housing fund has benefited many. But it may also end up handing the government a double dissolution trigger.

Crikey

Labor has boosted its housing package but will it be enough to win over the Greens?

The government and the Greens have made compromises over the housing future fund, but sticking points remain

The Guardian - AU

Labor announces $2bn for ‘thousands’ of new social rental homes and passes motion to make housing a human right

Prime minister Anthony Albanese also lambasts Greens over Senate stalemate, saying they are ‘happy to promise the world, while organising a petition against every new apartment building’

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Jim Chalmers attacks ‘coalition of weirdos’ as Labor pushes Senate to vote on housing fund next week

Treasurer says budget will include ‘additional measures’ to help renters as Greens launch last-ditch bid to restart negotiations

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: David Pocock offers sense amid stupidity on housing

Unsurprisingly, the fate of the Albanese Government’s election gimmick excuse for a housing policy has fallen into the standard Canberra sideshow of

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Labor spins a housing policy that does nowhere near enough

Labor’s successful election campaign including its housing policy was designed to just be a little better than Scott Morrison’s – a low bar.

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