Wednesday 1 June 2022 12:07 AM Anthony Albanese will be pushed by 12 Greens senators trends now

The Greens will try to push the new Labor government to act 'further and faster' on climate change and inequality after securing the balance of power in the senate.

The radical left-wing party will have a record 12 senators in the new parliament alongside at four members of the lower house.

This means it will have the power to block Labor laws that are opposed by the Coalition, handing it significant leverage over Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's agenda.

The last time this happened in 2010, the Greens pushed Labor PM Julia Gillard to introduce a carbon tax even though she promised there wouldn't be one. 

Greens leader Adam Bandt has declared his priority is to ban the creation of new coal and gas mines in Australia.

'There's no basis on which you can say, from a climate perspective - or even from an economic perspective – that any new coal and gas mines stack up,' he said after the election.

'The International Energy Agency, the world's scientists, the United Nations Secretary-General, have all said that to meet net-zero goals, there can be no new coal, oil or gas projects starting from now.

'That is the environmental and economic reality. That is something that we will be pushing for in the next parliament.'

The Greens will likely push Labor to increase its 2030 emissions reduction target of 43 per cent. The party wants a 75 per cent cut and net zero emissions by 2035.

It also wants to ban the export of coal and the sale of petrol cars by 2030 - as well as wipe student debt, legalise cannabis, and double welfare payments to $88 a day. 

Mr Bandt suggested Labor would have to make concessions, arguing: 'Voters have made it clear they want the Greens to push the Albanese Government to go further and faster on climate change and inequality.

'We want to work with Anthony Albanese to deliver the stable, effective, progressive government that Australians have voted for, but he will need to work constructively with the Greens and the rest of the crossbench.'

The Greens' website states the party wants to re-create the collaboration with Labor seen in the ACT Government on a national scale.

'Through collaboration, negotiation and mutual respect, we have built the most progressive and inclusive government in the country,' it reads.

'In 2020 the ACT became the first state/territory in Australia to hit 100 per cent clean, green, renewable energy.' 

However, Labor's energy spokesman Chris Bowen said Mr Albanese would not budge on his climate policies.  

'We sought a mandate. We will be implementing policies we took to the election,' he told the Australian Financial Review last week.

Labor sources said many of its policies could be implemented without legislation, such as upgrading the emissions reduction target and setting stricter pollution limits for big emitters, thereby avoiding a fight with the Greens in parliament.

Mr Albanese is urging the Greens to support his climate agenda and not block it because they don't consider it strong enough like in 2009.

'I hope that they have learned from that earlier period,' he said. 

Meanwhile, senior Liberal senator Anne Ruston said the Coalition would be willing to work with Labor to prevent some of the Greens' more radical policies.

'The two major parties may just have to start working a little more closely together to get sensible policy because I don't think Australians necessarily would like to see some of the policies of the Greens put into place by the Labor Party,' she said.

'I think there is going to have to be a… new relationship between the two major parties to make sure we do get sensible policy, because we can get some pretty crazy policy if you're relying on the Greens to support Labor.'    

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Here Daily Mail Australia takes a look at what they have promised in policies that will cost hundreds of billions.   

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