The scope is immense. As Ms Gillard protects her job by accepting any and all direction from the newly powerful Greens, no industry will be safe unless it's engaged in producing feelgood green things which - if the record so far is any guide - will be shown to be anything but cost-effective.
lol what industry will get the 'Gillard touch' next?
Brown has made it clear that the Greens have a detailed agenda, and among its priorities is the protection of the minority Labor government of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Brown has made clear his Greens will not back any Coalition moves to break up the Government and force an election.
I understand how you feel. Personally, I feel depressed and helpless.It's like watching a car crash in slow motion....except, that car, is our country. l'm ashamed to call myself Australian at the moment.
I understand how you feel. Personally, I feel depressed and helpless.
How does a Vote of No Confidence work? Presumably if the opposition were to make such a move in an attempt to force an election, the combined disagreement with the motion of the government and the Greens/Independents would ensure it wasn't carried?
So, truly nothing anyone can do?
I understand how you feel. Personally, I feel depressed and helpless.
How does a Vote of No Confidence work? Presumably if the opposition were to make such a move in an attempt to force an election, the combined disagreement with the motion of the government and the Greens/Independents would ensure it wasn't carried?
So, truly nothing anyone can do?
From my previous post "Brown has made it clear his Greens will not back any Coalition moves to break up the Government and force an election."
I think Bigukraine mentioned a Triangulation Turkey Shoot in another thread. Has merit IMO.
If this disfunctional government did happen to fall through one means or another and Abbott became Prime Minister with a hostile Green dominated Senate, he could hold the gun at Brown's head with a threat of a double dissolution if the Greens did not toe the line.
I'm sure Brown would certainly not want a double dissolution of both houses because he and the Greens would be annihilated
The greens polled 13%in he senate and will now have 12% of senators short plane trip to NZ if you dont like it
I understand how you feel. Personally, I feel depressed and helpless.
How does a Vote of No Confidence work? Presumably if the opposition were to make such a move in an attempt to force an election, the combined disagreement with the motion of the government and the Greens/Independents would ensure it wasn't carried?
So, truly nothing anyone can do?
The greens polled 13%in he senate and will now have 12% of senators short plane trip to NZ if you dont like it
Julia
If you google " 50 Labor Lemons " you will get a list of the labor policies that the liberals have compiled.
joea
BOB Brown has a vision of the Australian Greens supplanting Labor as one of Australia's mainstream political parties in the decades ahead.
As the Greens leader celebrates 25 years as a parliamentarian and holding the balance of power in both houses of parliament for the first time, with a record 10 Greens MPs, he envisages a much broader political future than the passage of the carbon and mining taxes in the months ahead. "I believe the Greens as a party are in a similar position to what the Labor Party was 100 years ago," Senator Brown told The Weekend Australian in an interview.
.Brown has shown hints of a smugness he will need to keep in check. Now is the time for Senator Brown to ensure his party exercises power in the national interest. We have argued that many Greens policies would not be in the national interest and that therefore voters should ensure they are "destroyed at the ballot box"
The greens polled 13%in he senate and will now have 12% of senators short plane trip to NZ if you dont like it
How does this actually work, joe?To bring down the government I think Abbott has to block supply.
Calliope
Yes I agree with your logic entirely. It basically "in the eye of the beholder".
In other words , think like Gillard.
It is interesting that with the change in the senate, people are thinking Bob Brown will have control, but my thinking if the government and coalition agree to block it, then they have the numbers.
Joe
How does this actually work, joe?
If it ever happened by some miracle that Labor was forced to an election and Abbott became Prime Minister, Brown would have to be very careful about blocking coaltion legislation on a continuous basis. All Abbott has to do is threaten Brown with a double disollution of both houses and he will finish up with khaki underpants.
The Greens will be annihilated if it ever came to a double dissolution.
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