The Greens are seeing red after a nasty blue with Federal Labor, withdrawing support for Julia Gillard and her fragile government
Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne addressing the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture: Kym Smith Source: News Limited
KEY Independent MP Tony Windsor has declared he will remain formally tied to Labor through to the election, as business groups attack the Greens for accusing them of controlling the parliament.
Mr Windsor said he expected the Greens to eventually make the announcement to end its formal alliance with Labor, "otherwise they were going to have to marry each other".
But he said he did not feel the need to do the same, as he had freedom in his agreement with Prime Minister Julia Gillard to vote on individual bills while supporting the government.
Fellow NSW independent Rob Oakeshott did not return calls.
Mr Windor's comments came as business groups accused the Greens of political posturing, after the minor party moved to shine a light on the mining tax debacle with a parliamentary inquiry.
Claiming the mining industry was threatening democracy, Greens Leader Christine Milne revealed she would next week move for a Senate inquiry into the mining tax after it raised only $126 million in its first six months.
She told the National Press Club in Canberra that democracy was at a crossroads after mining giants had been allowed to dictate terms in state and federal parliaments.
But Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Peter Anderson rejected the claims, adding that announcement by the Greens to tear up its alliance with Labor meant nothing and "smacks of political posturing".
"The suggestion that the national government or its parliament is in the grip of business is fanciful," Mr Anderson said.
"If Senator Milne scratched beneath the surface, she would find deep frustration from businesses large and small with a parliament that has regularly used it as a taxing target for wealth redistribution and easy pickings for red tape over-regulation and labour market over-reach."
The move towards a potentially embarrassing Senate inquiry comes after Labor has been under fire for hatching a deal with the big three mining companies in mid-2010 to stop a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign by the miners.
The tax was supposed to raised $2 billion this financial year.
Despite the Greens voting for the tax after the deal, Senator Milne insisted she had raised concers about the flaws in public and private.
"The debate on the minerals resources rent tax is a microcosm of the choices before us in the clash of interests between the mining industry and the people," Senator Milne said.
But Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Mitch Hooke said it agreed with Treasurer Wayne Swan's thoughts on the Greens.
"The Greens want to abolish mining in Australia and they will say and do whatever they think will help them achieve this end," Mr Hooke said.
"The speech was an hysterical rant without substance or evidence."
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