In the last few years, while federal Labor has been approving 23 new coal and gas mines, the ACT Greens have got local Labor to agree to phase out fossil fuel gas.
Over the weekend, the ACT Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS) issued a challenge to candidates running in October’s election to take bold and transformative action to prevent the cost-of-living crisis permanently reshaping our community for the worse.
The Greens have accused Optus of a lack of accountability following a nationwide outage, calling for a Senate inquiry into what caused the network to crash.
A deal is yet to be brokered on the contentious housing future fund, which will unlock finance for public housing, ahead of the upcoming sitting fortnight.
Labor's signature reconstruction fund has passed the lower house and is expected to clear the Senate after the government struck a deal with the Greens to ensure it does not support coal and gas.
The Greens have signalled they're willing to compromise to pass the government's safeguard mechanism, which would lower the emissions cap for big polluters.
