Is Labor putting out the housing fire or fanning the flames?

The Prime Minister is back on home soil - and back to hitting the pavement in the electorate.

After a week on the world  stage, the government is eager to turn its attention to a major domestic fire they need to fix - Australia’s housing crisis.

It insists it’s doing more than just throwing water on the blaze, pointing to the expansion of the government's home guarantee scheme. But is it a genuine fix - or might it add more fuel on the fire?

And Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has penned another letter - this time to her own frontbench about KPIs and performance standards.

Brett Worthington and Tom Crowley break it all down on Politics Now.

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