Australia politics live: Labor woos Greens and Coalition on nature laws in final week of 2025 parliament

Government hopes concessions will entice enough senators to pass the long-awaited laws. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhat about some of the other sticking points?Labor has been adamant from day one that it won’t establish a ‘climate trigger’ which the Greens have been consistently calling for.I recognise that’s a big ask from the Greens. But you will have seen over the weekend that we said that we are prepared to remove fossil fuel projects from the national interest approval mechanism that is included in the bill … that’s a bit of a nod towards the concerns around climate change and fossil fuels.One area where there probably is some room to move is for the bill to make it a little bit clearer about what kind of circumstances would attract the maximum penalties. So we’re having a bit of a look at what could