You liked Pink Batts? You’ll love Funny Money! Why? Well, I am now convinced that the Liberal party has gone completely mad. How else could you describe the extraordinary policy, announced in the death throes of the campaign, for the government to lend homebuyers half the deposit on their new homes? In other words, they are incapable on the normal tests of putting up the money for a deposit, so the government will pay it for them.
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