A senior Labor cabinet minister has unleashed on the Greens and the Liberal Party over their shared opposition to the government’s most immediate legislative agenda.
The government used the first Parliamentary week of 2023 to attempt to rapidly push ahead with key facets of its election agenda.
Mr Clare said the fact that the “far left and the far right join up together” was extraordinary as he called out the Opposition Leader’s attempts to block the government’s legislative agenda. The NRF will operate at arm’s length from government and identify critical financing priorities across renewable technologies, medical manufacturing, value-adding in resources and agriculture, critical technologies and advanced manufacturing.
But the Greens have joined the Coalition in opposing the NRF as the minor party throws its newfound weight around in the Senate. Mr Clare attacked the minor party for continuing to “make the perfect the enemyt of the good”, calling on Adam Bandt to take “real action” on climate change. The emerging battlefront for the government is shaping up to be its Housing Australia Future Fund which will build 30,000 new social and affordable homes in its first five years, while also opening up 4,000 homes for women and children escaping domestic violence.
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