Tanya Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the prime minister halted talks.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to scupper a deal with the Greens over a key environmental reform that Labor promised at the last election, addressing business concerns but circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek.
The stoush shows Albanese’s determination to get Labor’s agenda through Parliament this week without doing deals with the Greens, as this masthead Greens environment spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said the government had walked away from a potential deal. Labor had committed the establishment of the first set of national environment standards to regulate where major projects could be built and what their acceptable level of impact could be – seen as a major reform by environmentalists.
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