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The minister for climate change, Chris Bowen, is speaking to ABC radio RN about the climate legislation he will be introducing today.
He tells Patricia Karvelas the government is doing what it said it would be doing – which means the demands for no new coal or gas projects are not going to happen. Bowen says the public position reflects the private position – which means the Greens are arguing for no new projects in discussions with Bowen, and Bowen isn’t shifting.
Publicly and privately we have said the things that we regard we have a mandate for and the things that we don’t think we have a mandate for are things that the greens are asking for that weren’t our policy.
We will not move on it
The employment services industry successfully lobbied to stop a proposed rule banning providers from referring jobseekers to their own training courses under the new $1.5bn-a-year Workforce Australia model.
In a potential windfall for providers, Guardian Australia can reveal the Department of Employment last year intended to ban the practice before reversing course after “strong feedback” from the industry.