Australia politics live: Labor hunts support for housing fund; count resumes in NSW with minority government on the cards

The government’s election commitment to a housing future fund is yet to find majority support in the Senate. Follow the day’s politics live

Welcome to day six of the last parliament sitting before the budget is handed down.

Having secured much-needed support on the safeguard mechanism, Labor is turning its attention to its housing future fund. It needs the Greens and two crossbench MPs on that one – Lidia Thorpe has committed to voting with the Greens on climate issues, but makes her own decision on others – and so far, a compromise has not been reached.

The ACT government need to lead by example in scrutinising their supply chains for modern slavery risk. We also need to ensure that our response is holistic and that we are looking at the local context.

I believe it is important that we take responsibility for what we buy and procure. Currently the commonwealth system only requires large companies with turnover of over $100m to consider these risks. Our changes will ensure that ACT government procurements above $25,000 consider the risk of modern slavery.