The Albanese government has offered the Greens a deal sweetener on native forest logging as it tries to secure an agreement that would usher through its totemic environmental laws in the last parliamentary sitting week of the year.

The Greens are considering a concession to have native forestry fall under the proposed National Environmental Standards after a three-year transitional period. On Sunday, Environment Minister Murray Watt held a press conference in the Greens’ only lower house electorate to try to increase pressure for the minor party’s support.

“We’ve deliberately chosen to do this event in the [Brisbane] electorate of Ryan because it is, of course, now the only electorate held by the Greens party in the House of Representatives anywhere across Australia,” Watt said.

“We saw

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