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Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

More than 430,000 Australians could have owned their own home today – if not for 7 prime ministers’ inaction

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Thirteen years ago at the tax summit called to discuss the Henry Tax Review, David Koch stopped discussion of negative gearing dead in its tracks.

Better known by many as “Kochie”, he was the long-running host of Channel Seven’s Sunrise, TV’s favourite “daggy dad”, a finance journalist and a community representative at the summit.

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