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Editor's note
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Treasurer Scott Morrison has set at least one of the themes for this year’s federal budget - fixing housing affordability. But if the latest idea thrown around - allowing first home buyers to access their super for a deposit - is anything to go by, it’s not looking good.
This is not the first time government has suggested, and then backed away from using superannuation to tinker with demand for properties, as analysis from the Grattan Institute shows. And even though it’s changed a bit since then, it’s just as ineffective, and no less politically challenging.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Despite all the proposals to combat housing affordability, Scott Morrison will need to make hard political decisions on policies that will actually make a difference.
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