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Dutton wants a housing election. This could get nasty

As the RBA says, there are no quick fixes to the residential property crisis. But that won’t stop Opposition Leader Peter Dutton trying before the next election.

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The contrast was stark.

On Thursday morning, Reserve Bank assistant governor Sarah Hunter explained to a real estate conference in Hobart how the housing market was a complex machine, where changes in the calibration of vital cogs – shifts in demographics, jolts to housing supply, and the shock of surging population growth – have created a crisis that will take years to fix.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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