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Laura Tingle

We’ve got wall-to-wall Labor governments. They need to fix housing

Behind-the-scenes policy work on housing has to start paying off at Wednesday’s national cabinet meeting.

A staple of debates about housing affordability in Australia over (at least) the last four decades has been lack of housing supply.

What that meant in the political debate for a really large slab of that time was an ongoing focus on the supply of new land for subdivision on the outskirts of our major cities, and who was to blame for there never being enough of it.

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Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.

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