The parliament is a bit all over the place today. The focus is on the mining-friendly environmental laws, which Labor wants done by the end of the sitting. It is willing to make the parliament sit until Friday if it has to (and there has been talk of also sitting next week, but that seems unlikely at this point).

For all the talk of speaking to the Greens, Labor’s focus is on getting the Coalition across the line. It doesn’t want this legislation to have any more environmental protections – that is what got the industry and industry-captured states like WA all upset last time – so now it is all about getting the Coalition to agree to pass the legislation, without adding TOO much more for business, which would absolutely tank what is left of Labor’s environmental credentials.

So the parliament is in a bit of a flux at the moment – everyone is trying to work out who will blink first.