It’s pretty clear Albanese feels threatened by his environment minister, but many of his colleagues were unhappy when he scuppered her deal to secure Labor’s environmental reforms.

The PM, pushed by WA’s Roger Cook, made a captain’s call to deny Peter Dutton the chance to paint Labor as anti-WA or anti-mining.

Labor’s environmental wing is in open rebellion over Anthony Albanese’s green agenda, after the Prime Minister caved into Western Australia’s demands and killed a nature positive deal with the Greens being finalised by Tanya Plibersek.

Tanya Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the Prime Minister halted talks.

After an intense day on Tuesday of last-minute negotiations and lobbying by environmental and mining groups in which a deal was said to have "come close", the government has now shelved the talks.