The Australian Greens party

[drsmith]

Re: Australian Greens discussion

The Greens foreign worker campaign,

ACT Greens Senate candidate Simon Sheikh today denied seeking cut price foreign campaign workers, but The Australian can reveal the letter in which the appeal was made.

Mr Sheikh, the former head of the GetUp! activist group, claimed on Twitter today that a story about the letter was wrong and attacked the journalist who wrote it, The Australian's Troy Bramston.

"@TroyBramston was informed that his story was incorrect before it went to print. Chose to ignore. Sloppy work from an ex ALP staffer," he said.

But the letter clearly says the Greens are "looking for people to come to Australia and help out on the campaign".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...olunteer-workers/story-fn59niix-1226614929023

The letter,

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/04/08/1226614/944319-simon-sheik-email.pdf

 

[sails]

And now the Greens want 16 year olds to vote. Goodness most of them are more interested in facebook and parties than understanding both sides of politics, imo.

TASMANIA'S Greens are moving to get 16-year-olds the vote in time for the state's next election.

Greens leader Nick McKim will table a motion in parliament this week that would allow those aged 16 and 17 to volunteer to vote.

Read more from the Daily Telegraph: Tas Greens move to let 16-year-olds vote

 

[chops_a_must]

And now the Greens want 16 year olds to vote. Goodness most of them are more interested in facebook and parties than understanding both sides of politics, imo.



Read more from the Daily Telegraph: Tas Greens move to let 16-year-olds vote

What's the problem?

They don't get a say for the most part about policies relating to their future or higher education.

I can remember doing how to vote cards at 16, and wondering why other people are allowed to vote when they don't even know who is in what party.

Anyone over 16 should have to pass a test to be able to vote IMO.

 

[drsmith]

What Christine Milne thinks of democracy,

Greens leader Christine Milne said her party would do “whatever it takes” to get the reforms through parliament before the election, either by sitting later or through extra sitting weeks.

The worst thing that could happen would be if the school funding changes were taken to the election, which opinion polls showed was likely to be won by the Coalition.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...ptember-election/story-fn59nlz9-1226620567657

At least she's resigned herself to the inevitable.

 

[Calliope]

Malcolm Fraser...Senility?

FORMER Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser will campaign with the Greens to prevent Tony Abbott gaining control of the Senate, should he win the upcoming federal election.

Fairfax reports that Mr Fraser will campaign with Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who is competing against the Liberal Party for the sixth and last Senate spot in South Australia.

Mr Fraser controlled the Senate for the first five years of his three-term prime ministership, from 1975 to 1980, but he is now estranged from the Liberal Party, which he left in 2009, saying it had become too conservative.

The Greens have been calling on voters to keep them in the Senate to prevent opposition leader Tony Abbott from controlling both houses of parliament, although the return of Kevin Rudd as prime minister indicates a mammoth coalition victory is less likely.

Senator Hanson-Young and Mr Fraser will co-host a sold-out public question and answer forum at an inner-city Adelaide cinema on Saturday afternoon

.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...aign-with-greens/story-fn3dxiwe-1226673490752

 

[sptrawler]

Old Malcolm is probly trying to make himself feel better, after being the nastiest, anti worker P.M ever.
I would actually rank him above Gillard in my list of worst P.M.
Hard to forget the wages freeze, without the prices freeze years under him.

Anyway back to the greens.
IMO they will be hammered in the election also, there is no way people want a hung parliament again.

 

[Logique]

They were always going to miss the messianic Brown. Sen SHY no doubt watching on in the wings.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...eadership-of-the-greens-is-in-no-doub/4981448

Christine Milne says her Greens leadership is not in doubt after six staff quit

VIDEO: Christine Milne says leadership not in doubt after staff quit (Lateline)

Greens leader Christine Milne has denied her leadership is in doubt after revelations that six of her senior staff have quit.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...eadership-of-the-greens-is-in-no-doub/4981448
..."I think the differences were more about how we ran the office," she said.

"I have a view about a fairly flat administrative structure.

"I think Ben had a view that it should be more hierarchical.

"That's a difference of perspective about leadership."...

...Milne denies "fundamental strategic error" Senator Milne denied that the Greens need to readdress their strategy in light of the recent election, where they lost more than 500,000 voters...

 

[noco]

They were always going to miss the messianic Brown. Sen SHY no doubt watching on in the wings.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-...eadership-of-the-greens-is-in-no-doub/4981448

Christine Milne says her Greens leadership is not in doubt after six staff quit

VIDEO: Christine Milne says leadership not in doubt after staff quit (Lateline)

Greens leader Christine Milne has denied her leadership is in doubt after revelations that six of her senior staff have quit.

I remarked some 18 months ago, the Greens had reached their peak and are well and truly in decline.

IMHO I believe they will finish up in the same way as the Democrtes after Don Chipp pulled out they went down hill very fast.

 

[drsmith]

The roots might have been jostling below ground level for space for some time, but the weeds are now also competing for the declining sunlight above.

On her way out of the party-room meeting that returned Christine Milne as Greens leader on Monday morning, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young walked past a table of journalists at Aussies Cafe at Parliament House.

To their bewilderment, Senator Hanson-Young matter-of-factly announced that her party had just returned a leader that would see the party ''marching to a slow death''

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...-slow-death-20130928-2ulgp.html#ixzz2gDoRBNrA

 

[bellenuit]

Let's see if I have got this correct.

Three West Papuan activists scale the walls of the Australian consulate in Bali to promote their political cause. Apparently they also wanted to seek refuge, though they were not under any threat from Indonesian authorities prior to this act. However, the very act of breaking into the consulate would now make them subject to arrest should Australian officials involve Indonesian Police.

Their primary intention was to highlight their political cause, something which had nothing to do with Australia, by creating an embarrassing situation for Australia when the world media was focussed on Bali because of the APEC summit. It could easily create a diplomatic situation with Indonesia just a week after the successful meeting between Abbott and other parliamentarians and their Indonesian counterparts.

Australian consular officials diffuse the situation by "persuading" the activists to leave before any political damage is done or the activists themselves put in danger.

Instead of complementing the consular officials on a job well done, The Greens are demanding enquiries into the incident. What would they have done if they were in charge. Embarrass Indonesia in front of the world stage on Australian property? Destroy Australia's newly cemented relationship with Indonesia.

Why do The Greens always take the side of those who are out to do damage to or abuse the generosity of Australia. Whether it is East Timor in gas negotiations, illegal refugees who come though unofficial channels or West Papuan activists who want to damage our international relations. For The Greens, Australia is always wrong and everyone else is right.

 

[drsmith]

Nothing is above politics for the Greens including turning weather into climate.

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/201...-centre-speaking-to-real-people.html#comments

 

[Tink]

Very sad to hear about the bushfires in NSW, my heart goes out to those people that lost their homes. Hopefully no lives lost.

On the Greens, I still remember when we had the bushfires here in Victoria, we didnt hear a word from them with all the restrictions on backburning etc.

I also remember a story about a guy who was fined $50,000 for cutting a tree close to his home, it was in the paper, his house didnt burn and he got his $50,000 back after the bushfires.

I dont think they can talk..

 

[drsmith]

Larry Pickering's take on Adam Bandt's comments,

http://pickeringpost.com/story/dear-mr-bandt-/2175

 

[DB008]

Very sad to hear about the bushfires in NSW, my heart goes out to those people that lost their homes. Hopefully no lives lost.

On the Greens, I still remember when we had the bushfires here in Victoria, we didnt hear a word from them with all the restrictions on backburning etc.

I also remember a story about a guy who was fined $50,000 for cutting a tree close to his home, it was in the paper, his house didnt burn and he got his $50,000 back after the bushfires.

I dont think they can talk..

Tink, you are after this guy - Liam Sheahan.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/fined-for-illegal-clearing-family-now-feel-vindicated-20090211-84sw.html

THEY were labelled law breakers, fined $50,000 and left emotionally and financially drained.
But seven years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to make a fire break ”” an act that got them dragged before a magistrate and penalised ”” they feel vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy Creek still standing.

Anger at government policies stopping residents from cutting down trees and clearing scrub to protect their properties is already apparent. "We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down,"

Warwick Spooner told Nillumbik Mayor Bo Bendtsen at a meeting on Tuesday night.

Although Liam Sheahan's 2002 decision to disregard planning laws and bulldoze 250 trees on his hilltop property hurt his family financially and emotionally, he believes it helped save them and their home on the weekend.

"The house is safe because we did all that," he said as he pointed out his kitchen window to the clear ground where tall gum trees once cast a shadow on his house.

"We have got proof right here. We are the only house standing in a two-kilometre area."

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Greens are now 89% Watermelon.

gg

 

[drsmith]

The remaining 11% is the skin.

 

[Ijustnewit]

I wondered how long the radical Greens would take to start blaming and linking Abbott's abolishing of the Carbon Tax to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Not long radical Greens leader Milne has now branded Abbott " Typhoon Tony" and tried to link the event to climate change and abolishing the Carbon Tax.
So my question to Milne is the Carbon Tax is currently in place , so why didn't it stop this naturally occurring disaster ? It is another sick and low act by the Greens , just as we saw during the recent NSW bushfires.

 

[MrBurns]

It is another sick and low act by the Greens , just as we saw during the recent NSW bushfires.

Disgraceful, what an insult to the Filipinos.

 

[basilio]

Disgraceful, what an insult to the Filipinos.

Small problem of course is that the Filipino government is absolutely screaming mad about CC and the effect it is having on their environment. They desperately want all of us to take strong action ASAP. No insult there Mr Burns just reality.

I posted the appropriate comments on the CC forum.

 

[drsmith]

The very worst of SHY

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