Monday, 27 March 2023

Australia politics live: Labor hunts support for housing fund; count resumes in NSW with minority government on the cards

The government’s election commitment to a housing future fund is yet to find majority support in the Senate. Follow the day’s politics live

The Greens leader Adam Bandt says that any new coal or gas projects which open in Australia ‘is on Labor’.

He was asked about the share price for companies such as Woodside dropping at the news and tells ABC radio RN Breakfast

Investors see the writing on the wall. They know that coal and gas is on its way out and understand that the hard cap negotiated by the Greens means there’s a limit on coal and gas expansion in this country from now on.

We just can’t keep expanding coal and gas and stay below the hard cap. That’s what we’ve what we’ve legislated. I

The principle is … that we want the voice, when it’s established, to be able to advise government on matters that are important to Indigenous people.

Now, I saw the opposition yesterday trying to cause trouble, say [the voice would be able to] advise the Reserve Bank on interest rates, and you’re going to see more of this and the prime minister is rightly, rightly keeping the focus on where it should be.

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