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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Labor’s Help to Buy housing bill is darkening parliament’s doors again. Will this time be any different?

Anthony Albanese and Clare O’Neil speak to media during a press conference in front of an apartment building
Anthony Albanese and Clare O’Neil, who will reintroduce the bill. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Help to Buy, the government’s shared equity housing affordability scheme, will come back to parliament this week. Is it the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?

In September, the Greens and the Coalition teamed up to delay the bill in the Senate until November, leading to a flurry of speculation – egged on by Anthony Albanese – that the bill could function as a double dissolution trigger.

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