The Australian Greens party

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".

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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.

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sails said:

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

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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.

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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

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..."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...

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Logique said:

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

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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.

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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''

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Tink said:

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..

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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."

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Ijustnewit said:

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

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MrBurns said:

Disgraceful, what an insult to the Filipinos.

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