Housing and climate policy would be at the core of the Labor and Greens power-sharing agreement if the latter party gets its way.
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The next ACT Legislative Assembly's parliamentary agreement is set to be revealed on Monday afternoon but the parties have remained tight-lipped on what it is set to include.
Discussions between Chief Minister Andrew Barr and ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury, and other senior staffers, have been hammered out over the past two weeks.
It's not an unfamiliar scenario for ACT Labor and the Greens as it will be the fourth term where the parties have entered into a parliamentary agreement.
But this time the Greens have more influence in power-sharing discussions as their members tripled from the last assembly going from two to six members. Mr Rattenbury has said the party should be entitled to three ministers in the cabinet.
The ACT Greens leader has previously said his party would push for housing and climate change to be at the forefront.
During the election, the Greens pitched an ambitious $400 million housing package to deliver another 1000 affordable rentals.
Of this, $200 million would be on 600 community housing properties and the rest would be spent on 400 new on public housing properties.
They also called for $5 million a year for homelessness services and $8.5 million for a supported-housing facility in Curtin.
In contrast, Labor did not announce any significant new housing policies during the election, which could work to the Greens favour.
Prior to the election, Labor gave $60 million to build new public housing properties. It has since been revealed former Mr Fluffy blocks were purchased to deliver these.
A point of contention for the parties will be energy policy. During the election, Mr Barr and Mr Rattenbury clashed over the issue.
The Greens want the territory to be "fossil fuel gas free" by 2040 but Mr Barr rebuffed the "crazy Greens proposal", which he said would see households switch off gas appliances before they were ready to.
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"We don't have the sufficient infrastructure and there is no question that [under the Greens' plan] Canberrans who currently have gas would be forced off gas ahead of when they are ready to do so," Mr Barr said at the time.
Poker machine regulation could also be an area of contention. Both parties have sought to reduce the number of pokies in Canberra's clubs but the Greens have pushed for reforms to go further.
The Greens lost their bid for major poker machine reform in the last parliamentary agreement, but at the time Mr Rattenbury said Labor was "simply not ready" for reforms around mandatory pre-commitment.
During the election, the Greens said the number of gaming machine licenses should be slashed by more than 20 per cent. Labor's policy is to compensate clubs that surrender machines, but it does not force clubs to surrender machines.