The solicitor-general has confirmed Labor’s troubled housing bill has failed to pass parliament, and a second misfire would be grounds for a double-dissolution election.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed he had received legal advice the $10 billion housing future fund had officially failed to make it through the upper house.
If the bill fails a second time, the government has the option of calling a double dissolution of parliament, triggering an early election for both houses.
The Greens delayed the proposed housing future fund until October in the Senate on Monday with the support of the opposition.
The fund has faced an uphill battle in the Senate, with the coalition and much of the crossbench taking issue with the proposal….