Greens, Coalition promise to challenge Labor’s agenda in the Senate
Even with a massive majority in the House of Representatives, Anthony Albanese is facing a big hurdle as parliament resumes.


News.com.au
July 21, 2025

The Greens and the opposition are vowing to pump the breaks on Anthony Albanese’s agenda as parliament resumes this week.

The Prime Minister commands a massive 94-seat majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate is another matter.

Labor will need to work with either the Greens or the Coalition to pass legislation through the chamber – a task far easier said than done.

For many of the Albanese government’s more progressive items, such as legislating penalty rates, the Greens are more natural partners, but Senator Nick McKim said on Monday his party would hold Mr Albanese “to account”.

Nick McKim said he expects Mr Albanese to work ‘constructively’ with the Greens.

“The results were pretty clear in the Senate and I wasn’t that happy with the PM telling the Senate and the Greens to get out of the way shortly after the election,” Senator McKim told Nine’s Today.

“We haven’t been put into the Australian parliament to get out of the Prime Minister’s way.

“We’ve been put in there to hold him to account.

“And we do expect him to deliver, and we expect him to engage in some of the really meaningful issues, whether it’s climate change, whether it’s protecting nature, whether it’s the housing crisis in Australia.”

He went on to say the Greens needed “to see solutions that are commensurate with the scale of the challenges facing the country”.


“We’re here to work constructively and cooperatively with Labor,” Senator McKim said.

“We hope that they would take the same approach to us.”

Jane Hume said her party will hold the ‘very bad’ government to account.

Meanwhile, demoted Liberal senator Jane Hume took a similar line.

She was opposition finance spokeswoman under Peter Dutton and championed some of the Coalition’s most controversial policies.

Senator Hume was booted from the frontbench after Labor’s federal election landslide decimated the Liberal Party.

Acknowledging the Coalition had “hit a low point in their primary vote”, she pledged to “work every day” to claw back support.

“We’re going to work every day to rebuild trust with the Australian people, to make sure that they know that we’re listening to their concerns and responding to them, sticking with our values,” Senator Hume told Sky News.

“Of course, those important values of reward for effort, lower taxes, growing the economy, managing the budget responsibly.

“But at the same time, we have to make sure that this three years we are holding this very bad government to account, because the last three years delivered nothing other than a cost of living crisis where people saw their standard of living go backwards and economic growth stagnating.

“The last thing we need is another talk fest – we need an economic plan.”

We don't want a government either the coalition, or labor with an automatic rubber stamp.  This is why we have the Senate.   :)

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Greens, Coalition promise to challenge Labor’s agenda in the Senate

They are going to "challenge" it in opposite directions.

freediver wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2025 at 8:44am:

Quote: Greens, Coalition promise to challenge Labor’s agenda in the Senate They are going to "challenge" it in opposite directions.

Hopefully, our elected representatives vote on less binary terms than yours.

There are only two options mothra, yes or no.

Then they can both be wiped out completely next election  :)

so they're going to challenge bills they haven't even seen yet?


and the greens pretend they aren't in cahoots with the libs :D :D :D

John Smith wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2025 at 11:34am:

so they're going to challenge bills they haven't even seen yet? and the greens pretend they aren't in cahoots with the libs :D :D :D

Funny that they've always been swapping preferences with Labor for years.

Don't count Teals & Independents as Libs.

Gnads wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2025 at 11:37am:

John Smith wrote on Jul 22nd, 2025 at 11:34am: so they're going to challenge bills they haven't even seen yet? and the greens pretend they aren't in cahoots with the libs :D :D :D Funny that they've always been swapping preferences with Labor for years. Don't count Teals & Independents as Libs.

are you now pretending they don't swap preferences with the libs? :D :D :D

whiteknight wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2025 at 8:02am:

We don't want a government either the coalition, or labor with an automatic rubber stamp.  This is why we have the Senate.   :)

I feel for the Yanks, with the way Trump has a stranglehold over Congress, the Senate and White House. His administration is an appalling joke.

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LNP never again wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2025 at 11:11am:

Then they can both be wiped out completely next election  :)

Not under our Stolen Election theft by preference votes system - virtually guarantees that one or the other will get back in..

That's why The People are rising up against that - when they vote down a party by a majority vote - 65.3% of Australians voted NO to Labor ..... The People expect that party to not hold a huge majority of seats.

The infantile minded recreationally outraged mothra instantly said that I did not understand our electoral system - I understand it well enough to know when it is blatant theft of the Rights of The People that mothra etc claim to uphold so lovingly against we tyrants in hir imagination .. and Sad Kanga's 'punching down on the Abos'... talk about deluded..