David Pocock to use Senate balance of power to push for waiving of ACT’s public housing debt

Independent calls for $100m debt to be wiped as part of negotiations over Labor's $10bn housing policy, which also faces Greens resistance

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The new independent senator David Pocock will use his balance of power position in the Senate to push for the ACT government's $100m public housing debt to be waived as part of negotiations over Labor's new housing policy.

Legislation for the government's new $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund also faces resistance from the Greens, with the party's housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather saying the proposal is not good enough" to secure support in the Senate.