Bob Brown says that the sleeper election issue awakened by this week’s uproar in parliament is the environment.

“By ramming through protection for the polluting Atlantic salmon companies in Tasmania, both Albanese and Dutton have catapulted the environment back into the headlines. You could hear Labor and Coalition votes washing away to the Greens and Independents as both old parties put corporate greed before the destruction of Australia’s natural environment. It was a Labor-Liberal own goal.”

“Albanese and Dutton don’t get it but young Australians won’t vote for their coal mines, gas fracking, native forest logging and polluting industrial fish farms. Albanese’s hollow promise of an Environment Protection Agency next term is ridiculed by his own walloping of a bill for an EPA this term. And Dutton is committed to getting rid of strong environmental laws altogether. They’ve lost the plot and will suffer at the ballot box for it,” Brown said.