The opposition is divided over allowing first home buyers to dip into their retirement savings for a deposit, with senior frontbenchers downplaying backbench MP Garth Hamilton’s claim he has enough support inside the party room to block the measure being put forward at a third straight election.
Hamilton told the ABC on the weekend that he had been talking to his Liberal and National colleagues about ending the party’s long-standing policy to allow first home buyers access their superannuation for a house deposit.
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