Doc, I don't think I will be the most popular boy amongst the Greens today after posting #8148 on the CLIMATE HYSTERIA THREAD.
They will most likely still persist that our CO2 emissions on Earth has caused the Sun to blink....ROFL.
Richard Di Natale in spruiking a minority government with Labor in the event of a hung parliament got himself into a bit of bother over offshore asylum processing today,
I'd suggest that forces within the Greens party that are less pragmatic than Richard pulled him into line.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...s-says-richard-di-natale-20160629-gpuiv1.html
Saw Bob Brown on TV saying the Green NSW leadership should resign. Didnt argue with the critiscism that they were watermelons. Green skin but red on the inside.
I don't think watermelons is appropriate.
They are so blarently red, the small green patchescare simply there to further and facilitate the ideology. More like tomatoes these days
Bob didn't attack de Nataile. He was attacking the people running NSW.
What the Greens need most of all, is a root and branch review of all their policies.
I think they need to be more Centrist, and believe Di Natale was a good appointment.
Bob Brown is probably right about NSW. Everyone knows where Lee Rhiannon sits in the policy spectrum, I can't see how it adds the electability of the party.
There is a leftist strain in the Greens that is deeply ambivalent about democratic politics.
Agree, they are so far left they have fallen off the cliff.
Anti achievement, anti western culture, big on PC
There is no freedom when it comes to their ideology, we all have to walk the plank of destruction.
What?!! I can't fathom the logic of one proposition supporting the other?
They are not my words......That is from a report by the Australian Newspaper.
Saw Bob Brown on TV saying the Green NSW leadership should resign. Didnt argue with the critiscism that they were watermelons. Green skin but red on the inside.
This week in politics was all about the major parties trying to leave a lasting impression with voters before the long summer break.
But it’s likely no-one would have predicted the Greens would be the ones to outsmart not only the Government and Opposition but also the try-hards on the Senate crossbench by getting the highest media profile.
The Labor Opposition did its best this week to make the Government look chaotic, which wasn’t difficult given the tangle it got itself into over the backpacker tax.
Justice Party senator Derryn Hinch didn’t help, unabashedly changing his mind on the income tax rate for foreign workers on holiday visas three times in less than a week.
First he voted for the Government’s original compromise of 19 per cent (down from 32.5 per cent), which was defeated in the Senate when Jacqui Lambie teamed with Labor to cut the rate to 10.5 per cent.
Then Senator Hinch said he would back the Government’s new compromise tax rate of 15 per cent, only to welch on that undertaking and propose a 13 per cent tax instead.
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One media outlet reported the Nationals suspect an adviser in Senator Hinch’s office, who once worked for the Palmer United Party and before that Tony Windsor, was behind the wrecking move.
Labor couldn’t believe its luck, deserting Lambie, jumping onto the Hinch bandwagon and goading the Prime Minister to give in to its “sensible solution” in the same way he “gave in” to the right-wingers in his party.
To this writer, Labor’s faux reassurance was a lot like Lucy assuring Charlie Brown that she really would let Charlie Brown kick the football this time.
Demonstrating that at least he’s smarter than a Peanuts character, Malcolm Turnbull declined the offer, safe in the knowledge that if he had taken it up Labor would have rhetorically snatched the ball away, lambasting him for yet another “embarrassing backdown”.
Luckily for the Prime Minister, the Greens saw a chance on Thursday and moved swiftly to take it.
The minor party had already won brownie points with its “base constituency” this week by showing support for protesters who interrupted question time on Wednesday and scaled the front of Parliament House on Thursday.
The activists aimed to draw attention to the major parties’ joint responsibility for the ongoing suffering of asylum seekers and refugees being held offshore.
The Greens seem to be the only Brains left in politics these days. A good end note for the year:
The Greens seem to be the only Brains left in politics these days. A good end note for the year:
Explod, could you give a link when you quote someone, or at least say who wrote the piece.
Thanks
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