Bob Brown, then Greens leader, in 2009 (Image: AAP/Alan Porritt)
Bob Brown, then Greens leader, in 2009 (Image: AAP/Alan Porritt)

Continuing with its admirable commitment to bipartisanship in the exact ways its voters don’t want, Labor is seeking the opposition’s support for its watered-down, industry-approved version of the Environmental Protection Agency. And it’s not just the Coalition on Labor’s mind, apparently.

“If the Greens party doesn’t support the government’s EPA laws, this could be their carbon pollution reduction scheme mistake mark two,” Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said yesterday.

If you are among the huge chunk of voters for whom the CPRS barely rates as a distant political memory, worry not, Labor is always here to remind you (as are we).