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Greens want super changes on accounts over $1.9 million

The balance-of-power wielding Greens are demanding the government impose a higher tax rate on superannuation accounts above $1.9 million to secure their vote.

AAP

Sinn Féin and Greens clash over where to place experimental recycling bins in Belfast

Parties clash over whether to concentrate pilot in city centre or spread city wide

Belfast Live

Labour holds Byker in Newcastle by-election as Greens optimistic after doubling vote share

Hayder Qureshi polled almost half of the vote to hold a vacant Byker ward seat for Labour on Thursday

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Labor accused of ‘fiddling at the margins’ on super as Greens urge greater crackdown on tax concessions

Nick McKim says Albanese government proceeding with stage-three tax cuts means a ‘money-go-round scheme for the rich’

The Guardian - AU

NSW government called out on net zero goal as own data projects coal and gas emissions until 2050

Data also shows land sector will absorb more carbon than it emits from 2015 despite passage of laws that make land clearing easier

The Guardian - AU

Greens in fresh push for Murdoch media inquiry

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will introduce legislation to establish a federal commission of inquiry into Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

The New Daily

No real estate agents fined for breaking NSW rent bidding rules, despite hundreds of warnings

Fair Trading says it is taking ‘an educative approach’ to new laws and planning for future audits and enforcement action

The Guardian - AU

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NSW Liberal MP Lee Evans fronts voters in Heathcote where boundary changes put Labor ahead on paper

Against a literal Labor wall of fame, Liberal MP Lee Evans addresses voters in the seat of Heathcote, where electoral boundary changes have given the opposition an estimated margin of 1.7 per cent.

ABC News

Superannuation on paid parental leave still ‘on the table’ for May budget, Katy Gallagher says

Minister for finance says she would ‘like to do it now’ but concedes pressures on the budget are intensifying

The Guardian - AU

Greens to push Labor to fast-track 26 weeks of paid parental leave and pay superannuation on it

Party joins chorus of super funds and crossbenchers who want to use government’s tax concessions bill to call for broader changes

The Guardian - AU

'Prohibition has failed': Push to legalise weed in NSW

The Greens want to legalise and regulate cannabis in the next term of NSW parliament in a move they say could help end the war on drugs.

AAP

Richard Denniss: Climate action undermined by ineffective legislation

Passing climate legislation that does nothing to stop new gas and coal mines will make it harder for Australia to reduce its emissions in the future.

The New Daily

Super reforms a ‘good start’ but Labor under pressure on stage-three cuts and parental leave

Crossbenchers welcome changes but some say government should revisit other tax concessions that have become ‘taboo’

The Guardian - AU

Scottish Greens members call for special meeting to debate Bute House deal with SNP

Greens members have petitioned the party to hold a special meeting to debate the future Bute House agreement amid the SNP leadership contest.

The National (Scotland)

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens leader Adam Bandt on trying to force Labor's hand on reform

Adam Bandt aspired to power-sharing with a Labor government. That was never going to happen but, possessing the major slice of the balance of power in the Senate, the Greens have considerable potential muscle – at least in theory.

The New Daily

Senators call for more detail on emissions safeguard climate policy

A carbon price and investment certainty are built into an emissions safeguard but senators scrutinising the changes remain unconvinced.

AAP

Qld Greens push plans to end fossil fuel industry

The Queensland Greens will table legislation to ban new coal and gas projects and exports by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

AAP

More funding, uniform law needed to fix abortion access

Funding gaps, lack of training opportunities and inconsistent legislation are some of the barriers to abortion access, a parliamentary committee has been told.

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The Guardian - AU

Labor plan to beef up government’s cyber powers faces Senate block

A paper expanding on greater ability to intervene during hacks – especially on private companies – causes alarm among Coalition and Greens

The Guardian - AU

Methane emissions ‘incredibly cheap’ to cut without needing offsets, safeguard mechanism inquiry told

Hearing into Labor’s changes to the scheme told a 75% reduction in methane was possible using commercially competitive existing technology

The New Daily

Premier blasts Thorpe’s ‘disgraceful’ Mardi Gras protest

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has blasted Senator Lidia Thorpe for her protest that briefly halted the Sydney Mardi Gras parade.

ABC News

Ex-NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham to head Legalise Cannabis Party upper house ticket

Jeremy Buckingham was a Greens Upper House MP from 2011 to 2018, when he sensationally quit the party. Next month, he will head the upper house ticket for the Legalise Cannabis Party.

The National (Scotland)

Humza Yousaf says he is 'only candidate who can ensure SNP-Green deal continues'

Yousaf has said he is the only candidate running in the SNP leadership race who can ensure the powersharing deal with the Scottish Greens continues.

The Independent UK

Humza Yousaf says only he can keep the SNP in majority government at Holyrood

The current Scottish Health Secretary insisted he would be able to maintain the power-sharing deal the SNP has with the Greens.

AAP

Safeguard a 'once in a decade' chance to cut emissions

The Albanese government won't consider bans on new coal projects in return for the Greens' support for its climate policy targeted at big emitters.

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