Australia politics live: Labor strikes deal with the Greens to overhaul federal environmental protection laws

Anthony Albanese announces Greens have agreed to support Labor’s rewrite of the EPBC Act. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘We are very close’ on environment bill, Hanson-Young saysHanson-Young says she’s feeling more positive about a deal on the environment bill than she was at the start of the week.I don’t expect that we will get everything we want. We’re just trying one last time to get some final started this process on the basis that I wanted more protections for our forests, and protections for climate of course.If we can get movement on those issues, I’ve always said that I’m up for helping the Government improve these laws. We’re not there yet. But I’m feeling more positive than I was at the beginning of the week.There’s no requirements on them to create a space that doesn’t have harmful content … That doesn’t target