Labor: HomeBuilder not big enough

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Labor’s shadow housing minister, Jason Clare, believes the Morrison Government’s HomeBuilder policy is not big enough and wants the government to fund social housing to “save tradies jobs”:

For months Michael Sukkar has been peddling the line that the HomeBuilder Scheme would “keep hundreds of thousands of people in jobs”.

He has said it in interviews. He has said it on Twitter. He has said it in Parliament.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.