Super for houses is a bad policy, but Scott Morrison wants to pick a fight over it

Scott Morrison at the Liberal party campaign launch told voters he was ‘just warming up’ despite the Coalition having been in power for three terms. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

If the 2022 contest is between a bulldozer and a builder, it makes sense that the final act of the election be staged on a residential housing construction site.

Back when Scott Morrison was being written off erroneously as a dead prime minister walking at the same point of the campaign in 2019, he used the official launch to unveil a new homeowner deposit scheme to help first-home buying couples get “their first leg on the first rung of the ladder”.