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The Greens’ party room met earlier this morning.

They have considering throwing a wildcard into the quickly changing saga of the banking commission of inquiry.

They are increasingly of the view that the Liberal National senator Barry O’Sullivan is not serious about pursuing a proper parliamentary inquiry into the banks.

At this stage, they say they are unlikely to support his private member’s bill in the Senate. They say the Senate has already passed a bill to establish a commission of inquiry (co-sponsored by the Greens, Labor, the Nick Xenophon Team, and others) and they are thinking of introducing that bill to the House of Representatives next week.

They say if the LNP backbencher George Christensen, and his colleague Llew O’Brien, are serious about crossing the floor to support a banking inquiry then they will have the opportunity to do so with the Greens bill.

They acknowledge there’s a chance that such a tactic could upset the momentum for an inquiry. So watch this space.

On Milo Yiannopoulos:

Apart from the banks, they’re still angry about Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm inviting the alt-right poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos to Parliament House next month.

The Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said one thing people need to realise is that the publicist for Leyonhjelm’s book is the same publicist for Yiannopoulos’s book.

But the Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is going to write to the presiding officers in Parliament House to ask them why they have granted access to Yiannopoulos in the first place and to ask them to rescind the offer.

On Don Burke:

The Greens say they are so disturbed by the allegations about Don Burke, and revelations that Channel Nine executives were aware of his behaviour for years, that they have started investigating what types of penalties could be put in place for media executives – and boards – that don’t act on allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

They say television broadcasters and radio stations are allowed to access the public airwaves, with regulations and restrictions governing that access.

“Stay tuned for that,” Sarah Hanson-Young said.