The Greens Sarah Hanson-Young says Tanya Plibersek has been “thrown under the bus” by Anthony Albanese with these environmental laws “for the third or fourth time”.

Albanese has denied it, as recently as this morning. The Greens have said they were willing to negotiate with Plibersek on the EPA legislation this term, but the negotiations were kiboshed by the PM.

Hanson-Young:

“The Environment Minister has been well and truly thrown under the bus here, sidelined by the Prime Minister. This is, I think we’re up to the third or the fourth time this has happened in the space of six months. It says everything about how the government considers the environment and how the Prime Minister and the Environment Minister consider each other.

I understand that the bill when it’s introduced, this is just extraordinary. I understand that when the bill is introduced into the house, today, it will be introduced by the Prime Minister and not by the environment minister. And that says everything.”