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

Greens leader Adam Bandt in the Senate on Monday. Labor’s Housing Australia future fund bill has hit an impasse as the Greens and Coalition withhold support. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

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, prompting warnings of a double dissolution election.

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”.