Time for a fake election over fake policy by fake parties?

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All politics is fake these days so it only makes sense that we have a fake election to go with it:

As rents rise across the country, Labor’s signature policy to ease the rental crisis – the $10bn Housing Australia future fund – has stalled in the Senate as the Greens demand more concessions.

To pass the bill, they are calling for up to $2.5bn of direct spending on housing and extra funds to incentivise the states to freeze rents.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.