Greens and Coalition put Labor’s housing fund in a deep freeze as bill stalls in Senate
by Paul Karp and Amy Remeikis from on (#6C980)
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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