Why won’t the Labor government freeze rents?

As rents rise across the country, Labor’s signature policy to ease the rental crisis – the $10bn housing Australia future fund – has stalled in the Senate. To pass the bill, the Greens are calling for up to $2.5bn of direct spending on housing and extra funds to incentivise the states to freeze rents. Chief political correspondent Paul Karp looks at the political fight over renters’ rights and whether it could spell the end of the government’s housing bill