Why can't Labor and the Greens get along?
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The Greens and the Greens Debate on Climate Change
The Greens had a range of issues with that policy too. And they voted against it in the Senate, which forced the Labour government to ultimately shelve the bill. The Gillard government later managed to pass a much stronger policy with the support of the Greens. That actually gets forgotten about in this debate. But Labour holds the Greens responsible for the fact that this 2009 policy failed. So over the years, Labour has worked to spin that debacle as a Greens blunder rather than any kind of miscalculation on their part.
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