Malcolm Turnbull shuts down MP debate on super for housing deposits

By James Massola, Eryk Bagshaw, Mark Kenny
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:30pm, first published April 12 2017 - 7:54pm

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has moved to shut down the unruly public debate over letting first-home buyers raid their superannuation, saying the issue had gone "round and round" and referring to his earlier criticism of the plan as a "thoroughly bad idea".

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