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  1. @cathfyffe @feather1952

    I'm sorry Cathy but that statement is wrong. The #Greens worked with the #Labor govt to improve the #HAFF to include extra money for #SocialHousing. I can find the details if you are particularly interested. Also, what the #Greens have currently done is to delay a vote on the shared equity in housing bill to allow the #Labor govt more time to consider negotiating a better solution. As you can see below, #AdamBandt is happy with the community feedback so far.

    "in fact, it’s exasperatingly familiar to anyone who followed the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) standoff (sub out former housing minister Julie Collins for replacement Clare O’Neil, though it’s clear Albanese plays a driving role). After several excruciating months, Labor gave a few inches, insisting it had nothing to do with Greens demands, at which point the minor party agreed to pass the bill."

  2. The failure of #HAFF was predictable and predicted (by me anyway). A typical Grattan exercise in trying to deliver policy outcomes without actually spending any money out of the budget
    johnquiggin.com/2021/12/15/hyp
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  3. Long article on the failure of #Labor's #HAFF scheme gets to the point right near the bottom, quoting Greens' Senator Pocock "“It would have been better for the government to directly fund the construction of social and affordable housing" #auspol

    abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/lab
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  4. TIL that Albanese's Housing Australia Future Fund #HAFF has yet to build a single house or even (AFAICT) approve a project. If Labor had just spent $500m/year directly out of the budget, instead of this byzantine shuffle to keep the project off-budget, we could have had 000s of houses built by now

  5. har drevet som #sysadmin både profesjonelt og privat i over 30 år, og _enda_ er det ting jeg ikke skjønner med BIND og fremstår som magi.. #haff

  6. #Mandate theory explains why #Albo messed up the #Voice referendum. Albanese genuinely believes that having a majority in the House of Representatives implies that the majority of people have endorsed Labor's policies, and that they will therefore reject anyone who doesn't go along.

    Hence, he assumed Dutton would have no choice but to support Voice. Similar story with Greens and #HAFF. Disastrous miscalculation in both cases #auspol

  7. The #HAFF was Albanese #Labor's biggest single program, spending $500 million a year. The Greens extracted $3 billion more over (I think) 3 years, tripling the size of the program insidestory.org.au/two-cheers- #auspol

  8. I reckon there's an opportunity to save the #HAFF here: dictate that the HAFF is the primary investor in this shared-capital scheme, buying houses with first home buyers.

    This would mean HAFF can directly invest in housing (what the Greens want) and be speculative (what the ALP wants).

    #auspol #ALPNationalConference #housing

    abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/ren

  9. CW: #auspol #gloom

    Hard to describe how depressed I am feeling about #auspol right now.

    The #VoiceReferendum was always going to be a longshot because referendums usually fail. But #Albo's refusal to put forward a model, and the promotion of someone as abrasive as Noel Pearson as a leading advocate have ensured a defeat so bad that the fallback of option of a legislated Voice is unlikely.

    In economic terms, Australians will be worse off by the next election than when Labor was elected - lower real wages, higher unemployment, higher interest rates, a more regressive tax system.

    The fact things would have been even worse under the #LNP doesn't cheer me up

    And just to make the picture complete, the #Greens are overplaying their hand on housing. Should let #HAFF through now, and pocket a win with the $2 billion.

  10. If $2 billion for housing is genuinely new (or at least much more than anticipated from Housing Accord), I'd say Greens can and should claim credit for pushing #Albo to it, and let #HAFF through