THE end of the Labor-Greens alliance is good news because every government that's climbed into bed with the minor party has ended up losing office, a former Labor minister says.
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne says Prime Minister Julia Gillard's government has walked away from an agreement with the Greens it forged after the last election in 2010 when there was a hung parliament.
Gerry Hand, who was immigration minister under former prime minister Paul Keating, said on Tuesday the agreement should have been broken the day it was signed.
Mr Hand said Labor should stand alone on its own two feet.
"Every time a government gets into bed with the Greens, they lose office. So this is a welcome relief to us," he told Sky News.
"If you look at the history, the Liberals did it in Tasmania. The Labor Party did it in Tasmania. And each time they lost office. This is a good thing for the Labor Party."
Former NSW Liberal opposition leader Kerry Chikarovski agreed.
"This is the best news the prime minister has had in weeks," she said.
Voters saw the agreement as Labor doing the bidding of the Greens, she said.
A spokesman for Anthony Albanese, leader of the government in the House of Representatives, said it would be business as usual for the government because none of the crossbenchers were ever guaranteed a vote on any piece of legislation.
"We will continue to do what we have been doing for the last two-and-a-half years and that's negotiating with the cross-benchers to get our legislation through," Mr Albanese said.
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said Senator Milne was only doing a bit of product differentiation.
"It is the government that has made the major environmental reforms," he told reporters in Brisbane.
"We can do plenty of product differentiation ourselves.
"We are the ones who brought in a carbon price successfully and we are the ones who have made major breakthroughs in Tassie forests and the Murray-Darling."
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie says the Greens "so-called" withdrawal of support for the federal government is nothing like his decision to end his agreement with Labor.
"When I withdrew support for the government some 13 months ago I made it quite clear that it meant I no longer guaranteed supply or confidence to the government," Mr Wilkie said in a statement.
"That remains the case and I am genuinely unaligned.
"The Greens' position, as is I understand it, is to continue to provide certainty of supply and confidence."
Senate opposition leader Eric Abetz said Senator Milne's "diatribe" added to the chaos surrounding the federal government.
"The Greens have worked out how toxic the Labor brand is and are trying to distance themselves from it," the senator said in a statement.
He said the Greens wanted to "have their cake and eat it", with Senator Milne saying the party would still guarantee supply.
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