The Greens will no longer insist on a climate trigger under a new offer designed to tempt the Federal Government into a deal to pass its Nature Positive laws in the final parliamentary sittings of the year.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Minority government may be beckoning but a Labor elder warns his party must not do deals with the Greens.
Katina Curtis
Her family claims she was duped into delivering the drugs to Japan from South East Asia by a Nigerian man she met online.
James Carmody
The WA Greens’ party officials have censured senator Dorinda Cox over reports this week about complaints of mistreatment and bullying filed by her staff.
Dorinda Cox has apologised for distress caused to staff by ‘shortcomings’ in her office but defended her handling of complaints about bullying and efforts to change.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has handballed questions over workplace complaints made about one of his party’s WA senators to an independent parliamentary watchdog.
Dylan Caporn
Labor would be pressured to spend almost $4 billion to establish 1000 free healthcare clinics if it wants the Greens’ support in a hung Parliament.
The risk the Greens pose to WA will be on full display this week as Adam Bandt tours Perth’s suburbs spruiking a $500 billion tax grab that critics warn would destroy the State’s economy.
The Greens have been accused of holding the dreams of would-be first home buyers ‘hostage’ as Labor’s housing reforms suffers a major setback.
Ellen Ransley
Greens leader Adam Bandt won’t relent on a ‘climate trigger’ as Labor scrambles to salvage the Nature Positive Plan and Anthony Albanese denies he made a captain’s call on the controversial laws.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Ellen Ransley
The Federal Government’s ever-worsening relationship with the Greens is there for all to see and will have ramifications for the election.
Paul Murray
The Greens want supermarkets, power companies, banks and other big businesses that rip off customers to face $50 million fines under new anti-price gouging powers.
Landlords and real estate agents who hike rents excessively or don’t ensure properties are up to scratch would face fines of more than $78,000 under a Greens plan for a national watchdog.
Greens leader Adam Bandt wants to cast himself as Robin Hood with a revamped set of policies to hike taxes for big business, miners and oil and gas projects.
Pro-Palestine students at Curtin University have won support from Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi, who says she is “disturbed” by reported attempts to curb their activism.
Anthony Albanese’s treatment of Fatima Payman risks alienating a generation of young Labor supporters, with many members ‘considering withdrawing membership’.
Josh Zimmerman
Fatima Payman’s future as a WA Labor senator is under a cloud as her strong pro-Palestine position ostracises her from the party.
Dan Jervis-Bardy, Katina Curtis and Josh Zimmerman
Labor could be forced to include a ‘climate trigger’ in its controversial overhaul of nature laws, as big business warns such a move would risk investment and imperil the net zero transition.
The Greens are talking up the thousands of doors they plan to knock on across the seat of Perth over the next 12 months but no one in Labor is trembling with fear.
The Greens are threatening to stall Labor’s vehicle emissions standards unless the Federal Government scraps legislation that could smooth the path for gas projects.
Housing is emerging as a key battleground at the next Federal election as Labor, the Liberals and Greens pitch different plans to fix the unfolding crisis.
A fierce opponent of the State’s multibillion-dollar gas industry who has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel looks destined to become a kingmaker in WA politics.
Jake Dietsch
The Greens have struck a deal with Labor to legislate a right for workers to ignore ‘unreasonable’ contact from their bosses after hours, guaranteeing its support for the Government’s sweeping IR Bill.
The WA Greens party has adopted new rules that ensure a woman secures either the number one or two spot on the Senate ballot.
