Tanya Plibersek has accused both the Greens and the Coalition of being “held to ransom” by “macho” extremists within their parties as she seeks Senate support to pass Labor’s environmental law reform this week.
The push on the Albanese government’s “nature positive” agenda comes as a parallel housing fight is run with the opposition and the Greens. In housing, the government is reintroducing its stymied bill for the Help to Buy shared equity scheme, dangling a fairly empty double-dissolution election threat.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the environment minister is accusing both the Greens and the opposition of playing politics over nature and ruled out a “climate trigger” in bargaining with the Greens.
“You’ve got the tail wagging the dog. In both cases, you’ve got the smaller, more extreme kind of people calling the shots and I think that’s a real shame. It’s a real block on progress,” Plibersek tells The Saturday Paper.
“But these are sensible reforms that environment groups can live with, that business can live with. It would be a step forward, and instead we’re just getting caught up in this quite macho sort of posturing from the more extreme elements in both parties.”
The minister name-checks the extremists as Nationals politicians Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan in the Coalition and Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather and the “people around him”.
The negotiations on what is the second tranche of the three-way split of environmental law reform are taking place as Plibersek hosts what is billed as the first Global Nature Positive Summit.
It is an event in Sydney geared around building a nature-positive version of net zero by 2050, largely by encouraging the private sector to join efforts to halt species decline and repair nature.
What the minister can’t present to the summit is the world’s first definition of “nature positive” – as it is in the stalled second tranche of Labor’s reform.
The full “nature positive” plan was offered in December 2022 by a fresh Labor government as a “balance of environmental and business concerns”, but so far only the first tranche that creates a yet to start “nature repair” market has passed.
“I think there’s a real opportunity here for the Coalition to strike a sensible deal,” Plibersek now says.
“They really do have to try and win back some of those supporters in urban and teal seats who would be very up for responsible environmental protection and the Greens could show that they’re not captive to the sort of extremism of the Chandler-Mather group.”
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I heard her biographer interviewed on the ABC some months back. She didn’t really hide the fact that she saw Tanya as a bit unworthy of her talents. She wasn’t slaying her or anything, more condemnation through light praise.
Personally i like her and would be interested in reading the book. I gathered from the interview that when the time randomly arose where she might seek leadership, she chose to focus on her family instead, with a bit going on in that regard.
Nothing shocking, families just need to focus inwards at times. I quite like her but i don’t think i would have at school.
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Unreal.
Anyone in the ALP throwing around accusations of “extremism” deserves nothing but contempt.
Also her claim of a track record of “negotiation and delivery” is such a blatant piece of bullsht only an ideological nutcase would entertain it.
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Tanya Plibersek has accused both the Greens and the Coalition of being “held to ransom” by “macho” extremists within their parties as she seeks Senate support to pass Labor’s environmental law reform this week.
The push on the Albanese government’s “nature positive” agenda comes as a parallel housing fight is run with the opposition and the Greens. In housing, the government is reintroducing its stymied bill for the Help to Buy shared equity scheme, dangling a fairly empty double-dissolution election threat.
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the environment minister is accusing both the Greens and the opposition of playing politics over nature and ruled out a “climate trigger” in bargaining with the Greens.
“You’ve got the tail wagging the dog. In both cases, you’ve got the smaller, more extreme kind of people calling the shots and I think that’s a real shame. It’s a real block on progress,” Plibersek tells The Saturday Paper.
“But these are sensible reforms that environment groups can live with, that business can live with. It would be a step forward, and instead we’re just getting caught up in this quite macho sort of posturing from the more extreme elements in both parties.”
The minister name-checks the extremists as Nationals politicians Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan in the Coalition and Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather and the “people around him”.
The negotiations on what is the second tranche of the three-way split of environmental law reform are taking place as Plibersek hosts what is billed as the first Global Nature Positive Summit.
It is an event in Sydney geared around building a nature-positive version of net zero by 2050, largely by encouraging the private sector to join efforts to halt species decline and repair nature.
What the minister can’t present to the summit is the world’s first definition of “nature positive” – as it is in the stalled second tranche of Labor’s reform.
The full “nature positive” plan was offered in December 2022 by a fresh Labor government as a “balance of environmental and business concerns”, but so far only the first tranche that creates a yet to start “nature repair” market has passed.
“I think there’s a real opportunity here for the Coalition to strike a sensible deal,” Plibersek now says.
“They really do have to try and win back some of those supporters in urban and teal seats who would be very up for responsible environmental protection and the Greens could show that they’re not captive to the sort of extremism of the Chandler-Mather group.”
I heard her biographer interviewed on the ABC some months back. She didn’t really hide the fact that she saw Tanya as a bit unworthy of her talents. She wasn’t slaying her or anything, more condemnation through light praise.
Personally i like her and would be interested in reading the book. I gathered from the interview that when the time randomly arose where she might seek leadership, she chose to focus on her family instead, with a bit going on in that regard.
Nothing shocking, families just need to focus inwards at times. I quite like her but i don’t think i would have at school.
Unreal.
Anyone in the ALP throwing around accusations of “extremism” deserves nothing but contempt.
Also her claim of a track record of “negotiation and delivery” is such a blatant piece of bullsht only an ideological nutcase would entertain it.