The federal government has threatened to call a double dissolution if its housing bill is not passed. Is it a political power play, an empty threat, or a legitimate mechanism for resolving a parliamentary deadlock?
Heated debate raged in Canberra this week after the government's Help to Buy housing bill was voted down in the Senate. All non-government senators — except for independents Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock, voted against the government's housing policy motion — and their combined 38 votes were no match for the government's 21.
It also doesn't always result in the legislation that's used to trigger the double dissolution from coming into effect, Ben Raue, an independent election analyst who runs the website The Tally Room, told SBS News. We've only had that happen on a couple of occasions," he said. Australia's first double dissolution election happened in 1914 when Joseph Cook's Commonwealth Liberal Party lost it to Andrew Fisher's Australian Labor Party.
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