Not pulling the climate trigger shows needle Labor must thread
Anthony Albanese has overruled Tanya Plibersek on a deal with the Greens because he doesn’t want to hang a lantern over what a Labor-Greens minority government might entail for the mining industry especially in WA.
Anthony Albanese has ruled out Labor doing deals with the Greens to establish a federal Environment Protection Agency. He has come over the top of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to do so.
The government’s new environmental laws are stalled in the Senate. Ms Plibersek had publicly canvassed accepting the Greens’ demand for a “climate trigger” to be inserted in the legislation to secure its passage.
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