Albanese signals Labor won’t negotiate with Greens on housing help-to-buy legislation

Anthony Albanese, speaking to reporters in Nowra on Sunday, claimed that ‘people are seeing through the Greens, where they offer nothing positive’. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Anthony Albanese has challenged the Greens to vote against Labor’s shared equity scheme for housing, rebuffing the minor party’s demands to horse-trade in return for cutting housing tax concessions.

On Sunday the prime minister said the government would put its help-to-buy legislation to parliament, where “the Greens can vote for it, or they can vote against it”.