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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Contentious koala park plan to go ahead as three Greens senators cross the floor

Greens leader Larissa Waters
Greens leader Larissa Waters. The Greens and environment advocates have been divided over whether to support the contentious plan. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A controversial plan to allow big industry to use a new koala national park in New South Wales to offset its climate pollution will go ahead after the Greens reached a deal with Labor, and decided not to vote with the Coalition to block it.

But three Greens – Tasmanians Nick McKim and Vanessa Bleyer, and Western Australia’s Jordon Steele-John – crossed the floor to oppose the deal on Thursday afternoon.

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