Anthony Albanese says he doesn’t “anticipate” Australians will go to the polls this year but is not ruling out an eventual double dissolution election if the standoff over a key housing bill isn’t resolved.
The prime minister has set up a double dissolution trigger with an announcement to reintroduce the Housing Australia Future Fund (Haff) legislation into the parliament next week, with a vote in the lower house in October, after it failed to pass the Senate in June.
