{"id":302689,"date":"2025-11-23T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:03:05","slug":"watt-calls-on-greens-or-coalition-to-make-a-deal-on-green-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302689\/","title":{"rendered":"Watt calls on Greens or Coalition to make a deal on green laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Minister Murray Watt says he wants to make a deal with either the Coalition or the Greens, as parliament heads into its final sitting week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the week that we can pass major changes that deliver a balanced package of reforms that deliver real wins, both to the environment, for business and for the broader community,\u201d he told reporters in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"_78513498480b2b42-image\" data-testid=\"Image-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00175bf8e750e0ecd9d6f8be1631db04611a0183.jpeg\"   data-id=\"00175bf8e750e0ecd9d6f8be1631db04611a0183\" data-pb-im-config=\"{&quot;aspectRatio&quot;:1.5,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;landscape3x2&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:382,&quot;urls&quot;:[&quot;https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.152%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_auto\/00175bf8e750e0ecd9d6f8be1631db04611a0183&quot;,&quot; https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.152%2C$multiply_4%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/c_scale%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_auto\/00175bf8e750e0ecd9d6f8be1631db04611a0183 2x&quot;]}\" width=\"382\" height=\"255\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Murray Watt.\u00a0Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Watt has made offers of concessions on the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act in recent days to both of the government\u2019s opponents in the Senate. It needs the support of either party to move the laws forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a real opportunity for the Greens this week to demonstrate that they have heard the message from the Australian people that they\u2019re not going to keep blocking progress, that they\u2019re not going to make the perfect the enemy of the good, and that they will work with Labor to pass these important reforms that will deliver significant benefits for our natural environment,\u201d Watt said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually, there\u2019s an opportunity this week for the Coalition to just for one week, see if they can focus on something other than who\u2019s going to be the leader of the Liberal Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watt wouldn\u2019t say whether he would prefer to make a deal with the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were to pass the laws with the Greens, there will still be very big gains for business. Equally, if we were to pass the laws with the support of the Coalition, there will be very big gains for the environment as well. It\u2019s all about getting that balanced package from Labor\u2019s point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Minister Murray Watt says he wants to make a deal with either the Coalition or the Greens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-302689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}