The Albanese government has offered the Greens a deal sweetener on native forest logging as it tries to secure an agreement that would usher through its totemic environmental laws in the last parliamentary sitting week of the year.

A concession to have native forestry fall under the proposed National Environmental Standards after a three-year transitional period is being considered by the Greens. On Sunday, Environment Minister Murray Watt held a press conference in the Greens’ only lower-house electorate to try to increase pressure for the minor party’s support.

“We’ve deliberately chosen to do this event in the [Brisbane] electorate of Ryan because it is, of course, now the only electorate held by the Greens party in the House of Representatives anywhere across Australia,” Watt said.

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