Australian news and politics live: Labor secure support from Greens on tax changes after deal struck
LIVE UPDATES: Labor and the Greens are celebrating a win, but the Coalition has been left fuming at what Australians must now endure.
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Key events
23 Jun 2026 - 05:45 PM
Wrapping up
23 Jun 2026 - 04:10 PM
How NSW Labor is distancing itself from Anthony Albanese
23 Jun 2026 - 02:25 PM
Ben Roberts-Smith pulls out of Australian War Memorial event
23 Jun 2026 - 11:40 AM
Federal Parliament to make rare rise on Tuesday for Australian War Memorial opening
23 Jun 2026 - 11:39 AM
Taylor tears into ‘stinking rotten’ Labor Government
23 Jun 2026 - 11:28 AM
‘Dangerous’: Taylor unloads on Labor tax changes
23 Jun 2026 - 10:12 AM
Coalition begins to sharpen message against One Nation
23 Jun 2026 - 09:50 AM
‘Very small part’: Treasurer plays down Greens deal
23 Jun 2026 - 09:39 AM
‘A really important day for tax reform’: Chalmers
23 Jun 2026 - 09:34 AM
‘Delivering real change’: PM welcomes Green endorsement
23 Jun 2026 - 09:27 AM
Greens vow to never let NDIS cut bill pass
23 Jun 2026 - 09:12 AM
Greens ‘disappointment’ but will support Labor housing changes
23 Jun 2026 - 09:05 AM
Albanese confirms Greens will support tax change with condition
23 Jun 2026 - 08:54 AM
Labor, Greens strike deal to push through Budget tax changes
23 Jun 2026 - 08:43 AM
Albanese weighs in after Starmer's resignation
23 Jun 2026 - 06:50 AM
Hanson’s shock Taylor admission as One Nation soars
23 Jun 2026 - 06:46 AM
Labor coy on future relationship with the Greens
Labor coy on future relationship with the Greens
Richard Marles has stopped far short of confirming that Labor will need the Greens to form Government in the future, instead saying Labor is the captain of the ship.
Following a fresh Roy Morgan poll putting One Nation ahead of Labor, (and miles ahead of the Coalition), Richard Marles refused to accept that the Greens have a major influence over the Government.
“We are governing Australia,” he told Sunrise, after being pushed on the Greens having Labor over a barrel on NDIS funding and tax reform.
“What we are doing is putting forward a Budget. We will work with the Senate to see (it) passed.
“The Greens are completely separate from the Government. We are governing Australia in the national interest.”
Will Albanese resign like Starmer? Here’s what Marles says
Following the long-awaited resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and amid Labour’s fall in the polls as One Nation soars, the Government has been asked whether Anthony Albanese will be rolled and someone new will take over.
After a chaotic few years of rolling PMs for a new leader in Australia, something done by both Labor and the Coalition, there’s been somewhat of a calm under Albanese, holding strong as PM.
However, as the polls slump and the outrage over the Budget continues to burn almost five weeks after it was handed down, Labor has been forced to defend the PM’s job.
“I think there are different circumstances here,” Defence Minister Richard Marles told Nine.
“Having lived through this in the earlier part of my career, the way politics plays out is very specific to particular parts of the world.”
“We’ll keep focusing on the challenges of cost of living in Australia, and Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor will keep working together to get in the way of all of that.”
