Labor senator Anthony Chisholm says the government will not be supporting the motion to ban the nature positive legislation from ever seeing the light of the senate, asking if the Liberal senator wakes up wondering “what scare campaign he’ll be running today”.

Chisholm says the government “has been clear” that it will not progress the bills, and tomorrow the nature positive bills will come up with a discharge motion (which has to be voted on).

Chisholm says the government wants to “provide certainty” to the state and territory governments through the legislation, but because the Coalition “won’t work constructively” with the government, so…the government wants to shelve the bills (this was announced on the weekend)

But the Greens Sarah Hanson-Young has indicated the Greens were willing to bend on its demands, so that the bills could pass. But this is another case where the government doesn’t want to work with the Greens, so once again is pretending that the Coalition is the only side of politics it can work with to pass legislation. Because that has worked so well in the past.