Greens and Coalition put Labor’s housing fund in a deep freeze as bill stalls in Senate

Labor's Don Farrell warns the government will regard the delay until October as a failure to pass' the bill

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The $10bn Housing Australia future fund will not pass parliament this week, after the Greens and Coalition teamed up in the Senate to delay the bill until October.

The impasse prompted a blunt crossbench message that the Greens were hurting people" while Labor's Dan Farrell called the Greens and Coalition the axis of evil".

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