CANBERRA, Australia -- A Greens lawmaker on Wednesday agreed to help the Labor Party form a minority Australian government in a widely anticipated alliance based on a desire to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
The lawmaker is the first of six lawmakers from outside the major parties to announce which party they will support to form a government after Aug. 21 elections failed to deliver a winner for the first time in 70 years.
Labour would need an additional three lawmakers to form a minority government, but controls the caretaker administration in the meantime under Prime Minister Julia Gillard. |