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The Greens have held a press conference pressuring the government over the failure to release its anti-corruption commission bill.



Greens Senate leader Larissa Waters and senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Janet Rice were also asked if they’ll be keeping their portfolios after Adam Bandt became leader.

Waters replied:



We’ve just had some new leadership arrangements and we’ll be having, naturally, those discussions about what important issues we’ll continue to work on. That’s a matter for the leader, and always has been in our party.

Hanson-Young replied:



I love the environment portfolio, I love fighting for Australia’s environment, and I have every intention I’m going to keep doing it.

That was stated with a degree of confidence. Hanson-Young didn’t directly answer the question about whether she had confirmed this with Bandt but, if not, she has rowed the boat out very far.



Waters also commented on the mysterious $165,000 donation the Liberal party declared from a company run by Scott Briggs – a key Scott Morrison ally – and then revoked, claiming the declaration was a mistake.



Waters:

