Responding to the Prime Minister\u2019s attempts to rewrite history and issue \u2018take it or leave it\u2019 ultimatums to the Parliament, Greens Leader Adam Bandt has warned that the Prime Minister risks misreading the national mood for co-operation on climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Bandt added that Labor needs to understand its vote went backwards at the election and that while the government has a slim majority in the Lower House, the Greens also have an increased mandate in the Senate, and that the government risks creating 3 years of conflict by starting with belligerence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens are willing to work constructively with Labor, but it seems Labor\u2019s approach is \u2018take it or leave it\u2019,\u201d said Mr Bandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor risks letting their idea of the perfect be the enemy of the good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis \u2018my way or the highway\u2019 approach from Labor is setting Australia up for a very long three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe government should choose co-operation over confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLet me be clear. The Greens are willing to negotiate on climate. But it seems Labor isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens want to see a stop to new coal and gas projects, as do the Pacific Islanders, the UN, the International Energy Agency and the world\u2019s scientists. Even Labor\u2019s weak climate targets will be blown if they proceed with new gas projects like the Beetaloo Basin, which will lift greenhouse pollution by up to 13%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor would do well to understand the recent history of the election, where their vote went backwards, less than a third of the country voted for the government and voters put the Greens in balance of power in the Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe government needs to work constructively with the Senate this term if it wants to get things done. This could be one of the great reforming Parliaments of all time, and I\u2019m sure there are Ministers that want to get a lot done during their term, but that will involve working with the Greens in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThree years is a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Responding to the Prime Minister\u2019s attempts to rewrite history and issue \u2018take it or leave it\u2019 ultimatums to the Parliament, Greens Leader Adam Bandt has warned that the Prime Minister risks misreading the national mood for co-operation on climate. Mr Bandt added that Labor needs to understand its vote went backwards at the election and … Continue reading “Greens: PM needs to choose: co-operation or confrontation?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17367,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions\/17367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}