Greens leader Adam Bandt has put the Albanese government on notice that he will push back harder on key climate and housing affordability legislation and target three Labor seats over the approval of new coal seam gas wells.
He said the party was willing to work with Labor on amending the legislation but “at a minimum, once we pass the legislation, the problem should get better, not worse”.
In return for supporting the safeguard mechanism, Bandt said that Labor should legislate a ban on any new coal or gas projects.Bandt said this could be done in the form of a “climate trigger” in the nation’s environment laws, or it could be in the safeguard mechanism legislation itself.“We put an offer, not an ultimatum, that we will put aside our concerns about the weak targets, the offsets, the fact that it’s Tony Abbott’s scheme … and vote for the package in full,” Bandt said.
Plibersek said the Greens had been targeting her seat for decades and she’s never taken it for granted.“I’ll continue to work hard to represent the views and values of my electorate,” she said. “I look forward to Adam Bandt and the Greens supporting our strong new environmental laws.” “Historically, the biggest obstacle to people voting for the Greens was just not knowing that we are going to fight for people just as strongly as we’re going to fight for the planet,” he said.
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