The Prime Ministers says Senator Dorinda Cox will stick to the party's position on gas

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he expects Labor’s newest recruit to stick to the party's positions despite her outspoken stance on gas projects. Former Greens Senator Dorinda Cox has been a fierce critic of a major gas proposal approved by the federal Labor government last week. The PM is also once again facing pressure on WA’s GST deal with eastern states making new calls for change.

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00:00From the process line...

00:04We are not going to allow a carbon bomb to be let off here at the North West Shelf.

00:09...to the party line.

00:10I will be working with the Labor government now to ensure that we tread a pathway forward.

00:16Labor's newest recruit has previously aired some strong views on a massive gas project extension greenlit by her new party last week.

00:25The planet will be cooked. It will be cooked. And in the North West of Western Australia, it will be unlivable by 2040.

00:34Condemning a government she saw as pushing ahead with polluting projects.

00:39Her now former colleagues argue her advocacy jars with Labor's actions.

00:44Those values are not consistent with Greens values. We've opposed that.

00:50But Senator Cox has made her decision that that party is a better fit for her.

00:56And her new colleagues, confident she will tow the Labor line.

00:59Dorinda Cox understands that being a member of the Labor Party means that she will support positions that are made by the Labor Party.

01:10Dorinda Cox's move reduces the Greens to 10 Senate seats and lifts Labor to 29.

01:16It leaves Labor still relying on the Greens to get to the 39 votes they need to pass laws.

01:22The weight of those numbers has Labor facing pressure to use them on a whole range of issues.

01:27Add to that list WA's generous GST carve-up, with leaders in the East keen for the PM to use this time to take on the West.

01:36Western Australia is one of the richest governments in the world.

01:41That GST deal signed, I guess about a decade ago, is an absolute shocker.

01:46Under the deal, analysts expect WA will receive a $33 billion taxpayer top-up over the next five years.

01:54That's something that we supported, that we put in place.

01:57We are a government that is doing what we said we would do.

02:00And any change could risk Labor's luck in the West.

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