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The coalition has outlined more of its vision to turn Sydney's Long Bay Jail into housing. It's vowed to set up an authority to oversee master planning within its first 100 days. It comes after the government backed down on three policies within a week following pressure from the opposition.

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00:02Life at Long Bay would look somewhat more idyllic if the Liberals and Nationals had their way.
00:0720 minutes from Sydney CBD and right on beautiful Malabar Beach.
00:12Prime seaside real estate that should be for young families, not for the crooks.
00:17The 1,200 existing residents would be evicted and the jail sold to developers to build 12,000 homes.
00:24We've got a shortage of housing, perhaps it is worth it.
00:27Other prisons would be expanded to accommodate the Long Bay inmates.
00:3112,000 dwellings on this site is ridiculous.
00:34There's one road in and one road out.
00:37The Coalition has flagged light rail along a route once used by trams, but costs are still unknown.
00:43A fantasy of an idea of housing.
00:46A decade ago the Baird government planned to sell off Long Bay, but ultimately shelved the idea.
00:52This is just a thought bubble.
00:54The Liberals' housing policy announcement is nothing more than a thought bubble.
00:59While the opposition is trailing both Labor and One Nation in the polls, it's chalked up some wins,
01:04with the government backing down on a string of changes the Coalition campaigned against.
01:10The word mother was reinstated to a parliamentary breastfeeding policy.
01:15Major train timetable changes were abandoned.
01:18And now reusable coffee cup schemes won't be mandatory.
01:22Three backflips in the last week, more than at the gymnastics competition I saw on the weekend.
01:26The campaign cartwheel gaining momentum.
01:30The campaign cartwheel gaining momentum.
01:30One more time in the last week, toward job

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