Greens use Labor's Adani indecision to ramp up Batman campaign

Activists seize upon Labor's contradictory messages on Queensland coalmine in battle for inner-city Melbourne

The Greens will use Labor's failure to make an unequivocal statement on whether it will oppose the Adani coalmine to ramp up campaign efforts in the Melbourne electorate of Batman.

With the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, this week telling Queensland voters that coal had a future and that scepticism about the Adani project did not equate to scepticism about the coal industry as a whole - the Greens and activist groups are ramping up their Batman field efforts ahead of the byelection on 17 March.