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Albanese overrides Plibersek on reforms.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has overridden his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to scuttle a deal with the Greens over environmental reform.

What we know:

Plibersek was this week close to striking a deal with the Greens to create Australia’s first national environment protection agency, with journalists briefed about an imminent breakthrough (SMH);

She had been negotiating for months with the crossbench, previously accusing both the Greens and the Coalition of being “held to ransom” by “macho” extremists within their parties (The Saturday Paper);

The Greens negotiators had dropped their demand for a climate trigger and instead were pushing Labor to remove the Regional Forest Agreement and Continuous Use exemptions in environmental laws (The Australian $);

WA Premier Roger Cook contacted Albanese and secured a promise to shelve the reforms, amid Labor concerns about potential resources industry attack ads during the next election campaign (ABC);

Albanese then circumvented Plibersek to call the Greens and declare the deal was off;
Plibersek noted that the legislation remains open to a vote, saying: “the bills are listed in the Senate. The Coalition, the Greens and other senators can support them at any time”;

Opposition leader Peter Dutton had flagged a clash over the laws at the election, warning that the government’s environment agenda would harm mining;

“The prime minister has been bullied by the mining and logging lobby again. [Mining magnate] Gina Rinehart and the logging lobby seem to have more influence than the rest of the country,” Greens environment spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said.