On 6 September 2021, Mr Albanese said that if the Labor Party won office at the next federal election:

We will be supporting our own policies going forward at the election. We won't be in a circumstance whereby any minor party tells us what to do.

Why has the Albanese government, in signing up to a dirty deal with the Greens on the safeguard mechanism, once again broken a promise that Mr Albanese made directly to the Australian people? Why?