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Greens insist they won’t back down on housing bill despite Albanese’s double dissolution threat

Minor party plans to door-knock Labor electorates in a ‘national day of action’ as it calls on the prime minister to cooperate to ensure the bill is passed

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Afternoon Update: Labor puts housing bill back on agenda; Victoria bans gas connections to homes; and Australians cut spending

Coalition accuses PM of ‘threatening’ a double dissolution to pass bill, while Greens urge government to negotiate in ‘good faith’

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Accentuating the negative

Former Coalition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser has accused the No campaign of using a trope of an ‘angry Aboriginal man’ to incite voters against the Voice, and new drugs offer hope of slowing the decline in dementia patients.

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Newbie MP Max Chandler-Mather builds his reputation on Greens’ green grass of home

Most Crikey readers are delighted the housing and rental crises are front and centre of the political debate — almost as delighted as they are to see the back of Stuart Robert.

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Greens MP labels attacks over housing a distraction

Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather says personal attacks against him are a political distraction, after the government's housing bill was held up for debate.

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Labor’s mines are costing the earth

The Greens claim federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has approved three coal projects in less than two months, and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says the Voice to Parliament will focus its advice on health, education, jobs and housing.

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Max Chandler-Mather, publicity hound with a nose for the kill, is winning on housing

The Greens housing spokesman has rattled the PM and his government, but the newbie shows no signs of being overawed.

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Big bang for budget bucks

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will reveal today that a jobs boom and company profits have helped drive the surplus above $4.2 billion, and the Morrison government’s HomeBuilder scheme was a dud which made building and renovating more expensive.

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Michael Pascoe: The Greens’ HAFF-witted bid to make a complete farce of housing policy

The Greens have forced the Albanese Government to immediately spend an extra $2 billion at the very sharpest end of the housing crisis.

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The Greens’ class conflict strategy on housing is a risk to Labor – and renters have nothing to lose but their bonds

Anthony Albanese claims the ‘new Noalition’ is to blame for delaying the $10bn housing fund but Labor still needs to urgently solve the supply problem

The Guardian - AU

What property-owning MPs have to say about the housing crisis

We must do more to help the homeless and those struggling to put a roof over their head, say MPs who own several roofs.

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Labor under pressure to freeze rents as Greens and Coalition back inquiry into housing crisis

Greens urged to back government’s fund as advocates say housing is needed now and politicians need to ‘start taking action’

The Guardian - AU

Greens ‘want poverty’: Housing stakes rise and politics turns nasty

But as the costs of the government's delayed housing fund mount, the Parliament was reminiscent of a student council at times on Wednesday.

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‘Too good to be true’: Key Greens demand for rent freeze rejected by Labor states

Party vows to keep pursuing rent caps after working with Coalition to delay vote on Albanese government’s housing fund

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Australian government seeks urgent legal advice on double dissolution over housing bill standoff

Labor used question time to pile pressure on the Greens, accusing them of caring more about retweets than rentals

The Guardian - AU

Greens and Coalition put Labor’s housing fund in a deep freeze sparking threats of double dissolution election

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

The Guardian - AU

Labor has boosted its housing package but will it be enough to win over the Greens?

The government and the Greens have made compromises over the housing future fund, but sticking points remain

The Guardian - AU

Greens push for more change after PM’s $2bn social housing pledge

Max Chandler-Mather says the Greens will keep pushing for a freeze and caps on rent increases

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‘Housing is a human right’ gone from Labor platform as Greens ramp up attacks

The Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather has claimed Labor politicians are ‘running away from the platform they were elected on’.

The Guardian - AU

Labor guarantees minimum $500m each year for housing in bid to win Greens support

Housing minister says work for social and affordable homes can begin as soon as future fund is established but Greens say it should begin now

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Greens refine demands on $10 billion housing fund

Negotiations over the federal housing fund continue, with the Greens urging Labor to meet them halfway to secure the party's support.

The New Daily

Greens and Labor still deadlocked on scheme to solve housing crisis

Renters ould have longer to wait for action on the housing crisis as the Greens and Labor remain at loggerheads over size, cost and scale

The Conversation

Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why

Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late.

The New Daily

Government rejects Greens olive branch, but where to on housing?

A $500-million-a-year housing future fund is stalled in the Senate amid a political stoush with the Greens.

The New Daily

Greens stick with two-year rent freeze but give ground on earlier housing demands

A two-year rent freeze is key to Greens' support for the government's housing plan as the minor party scales back previous demands.

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