Greetings from the Australian Greens bunker. I can report all your favourite Green MPs are hunkered down here, painstakingly avoiding any public statement, dodging the media and when time allows, assuming the foetal position, rocking slowly from side to slide, murmuring gently, “Everything’s fine, everything’s fine.”
The one exception is Lee Rhiannon, who last week was told by the party’s National Council to go and sit in the naughty corner and think about what she did. She didn’t and hasn’t.
Rather she wrote an Op-Ed in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday advising the Greens were an undemocratic disgrace but only with her careful management and that of her NSW branch colleagues could it become a beacon of participatory democracy. I recommend you read it just for laughs.
Full columns here.
its a pity we haven’t got an environmental party
Now that the two majors have gone full-retard on our environment in Queensland with this Adani scam, it beggars belief that their corruption conveniently escapes major scrutiny in a few of our mainstream publications but denegration of the Greens has multiplied.
It’s very disappointing & pretty sad if we’re still in a democracy.
The Greens are opposed to this mine, as are most Australians and the majority are absolutely appalled with $1B of taxpayers money being thrown at a dodgy Indian billionaire.
The environment needs protection here more than ever, but it seems to me that the corporate take-over of law-making in this country has been stepped up recently in a collective effort to silence dissent & attempt to steamroll over Indigenous land rights.
Regards, Bella
Two immature. narcissistic megalomaniacs facing off. “My ICBM is better than yours”sort of thing. Makes the Bay of Pigs stand-off look tame.
My money is on POTUS Trump’s superb ICBM dear Boadicea. Standing proudly erect and full of fire power it has been extensively tested. Say that crazy Kimmie has told us in the past he wants to “die in bed as leader of North Korea”. He may get that wish any old moment. Cheers.
“Standing proudly erect and full of fire power it has been extensively tested.”
Please leave me out of this, old mate.
But if you want to go the flaccid, forlorn and a frequent failure path you know you have a few worthy candidate’s here in Jack’s beer garten.
More on Nth Korea.
Warning! nsfw or children or sensitive types.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM
Let the good times roll eh Henry? Bombs! Kaboom! Kill people! Don’t get too excited just yet , it might not happen.
Maybe that Rodmann chap can mediate?
The Greens? The Nation is in the hands of mad Barnaby and people are worried about the Greens??
I note your recent change of opinion on the subject of South Australian power prices. Please allow me to quote your good self from late entry attributed to you on the last blog;
‘You should probably turn a few things off at the wall. Do you have 15 people in your home? Even is SA with teenagers and tech and TV’s running……..’
The comment EVEN IS SA is most interesting. Being subject to the odd typo myself I take it you meant even IN SA.
A startling admission from a local lad regarding the failure of SA’s energy policy!
There was a young man called dismayed
Who from the green altar he strayed
The South Aussie power was dear
But he lied to cause fear
Thank god old razor was there that day!
Usual dishonest attempt by you. Mack stated he was paying over $11 a day for his electricity. A household in SA with teenagers and friends and family all the tech and everything else running flat out is less than half that. So the startling admission is that power in SA is cheaper than QLD but we know that because the Newscorp commissioned ANU report shows that QLD has the highest yearly electricity bills in the Nation. You are pathetic. At 4pm in the afternoon you are already so out of it you embarrass yourself even more than usual. You inferiority complex is out of control.
Oh dear.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-ceo-admits-that-clean-coal-is-a-myth-69570/
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Goodness me dear Dismayed, Barnaby performing beautifully so far and has done as A/G PM in the past. Its the Greens and the Liberals in turmoil buddy not the Nationals. Cheers
Hmmm. A spot of public service lingo there Blowers?
The Nationalist Australian Socialist Isolationist party lets call them NASI for short get what amounts to a statistical error of the National vote and about a third of the Greens long tem average vote. Barnaby is a National embarrassment you are clearly delusional.
Meanwhile, it’s our two spineless, self-serving major parties who only do as they’re told by fossil-fuel donors and foreign powers, that’d be the most disadvantaged by an increase in the Greens vote.
No surprise, just dismayed people buy it Dismayed.
Cheers, Bella
Can’t get above 12% Bella…..8% Qld………
It’s a lot more than the Nats vote Razor.
So the Greens are getting 3 times the nationals vote of almost 4% nationally. Oh dear. .
Cheers Bella, Even beastiality bernardi last night on fox with the right wing spruiker Paul Murray belled the cat by saying the energy market is gaming the system and pushing up prices. I will continue to be Dismayed by the sheep and regressive views of the angry old men and woman on this site and others who want to turn back the clock to 1950. But I bet when they get sick they want the latest technology available. Take care.
When Bob Brown retired that was the beginning of the end for them.
Dearest Bodhisattva I am no fan of the Greens but it cannot be ignored that they get 5 times more votes than the Un nationals who get 22 seats in the govt with that dismal score as well as the Deputy PM ship. Strange sort of Democracy. If we had proportional representation they wld have 20 seats. Quite a few Australians must like them!
If we had proportional representation then the inner city would rule everything. May as well call us Italy.
It never hurt new zealand
We might even be able to drag the Nation and especially QLD out of 1950. Johmander, Playmander all kept conservative governments is power and holding back the states for decades.
Oh, the dire consequences of one vote, one value. Can’t have Parliament actually reflecting the makeup of the electorate!
Yes Boadicea when Bob retired from politics the Greens stumbled, but I refuse to be trapped or brainwashed by the major parties who are as corrupt & dishonest as each other these days.
Why would anybody imagine the Greens could be any worse than the Libs current “factional and personal feuds” taking place right now?
Bella
So you would like to see Lee Rhiannon a.k.a Mrs Brown hold a position of power in a ruling government Bella?
Why ever not mate?
Anything’s better than what we’ve got.
Geez, in 6 years from 2008-2014 SHY claimed $1million in travel expenses. Ye Gods and little fishes – where can I sign up?
I’m sure she bought carbon offsets (with our money) for all that vital travel.
A post last night on the other side, by a lady named Rebecca (I think?) says it all. When given the opportunity, Bob Brown and the Greens missed an opportunity to introduce “action” on climate change but preferred to play look at me, all or nothing, politics. SHY and her ilk would prefer to take the so called moral high ground that encouraged families to risk and lose their lives “at sea”.
By the sound of it they would make a few Bowls clubs power struggles look tame.
But the main thing with the Greens is their fight on behalf of Palestine, the biggest moral challenge for Australian’s at this time.
Yes that was the best of the comments OTOS.
Didn’t see that post but that’s what I was going to say Milton. Imagine the path we would have followed if they had voted for Rudd’s ETS? Might not have been better but it sure would have been different. No PM Abbott for starters is my guess (so maybe you’re happy about the way it went?)
Not so sure about your guess, Trivalve and we will never know. But I think we agree that when given the chance to show political leadership/maturity as crossbenchers they failed miserably, and worse they failed in the area in which (I assume) informed a good deal of their supporters/voters.
What will seriously piss the Greens off, and I assume it already has, is the voting bloc of independents, Hansonites, Xenephones and other types under the big tent and with caravans on the lawns of parliament who, when assuaged in their select fancies, render the Greens redundant. They effectively neutered themselves and I wonder if the header on this post should be changed from mess to farce?
probably would have been a farce like every other ETS around the world
Maybe. But what I was thinking more like, Rudd not knifed, no Abbott, Gillard less tainted…etc
Action! Like co-opting a builder to put in a skinny bamboo stick to hold up your balcony? That sort of action?
To be seen to be in agreement with the conservatives that AGW remedial requires only a token effort?
Give us a break.
What sort of “action” do you propose, Jean?
Bless you Mr Insider, what a fabulous read your column on the Greens. Foundered in 1992 and not even having come close to forming a government, except for that ghastly alliance with Labor during Gillard’s reign, we now see some 25 years later they are squabbling like a bunch of school kiddies as they march ever further into Political irrelevance. Totally out of touch with mainstream Australia they seem to cater for people craving a “caveman” existence. God help us when POTUS Trump pays us a visit, possibly November, dear Dicky Di Natalie may dress up like a Lettuce and embarrass us all as the Greens did when POTUS Bush came here some years ago. No Greens for me Mr Insider!
Foundered in 1992 Henry, I think you might mean founded. It has taken a bit longer for them to founder, but to be sure they have achieved it.
BTW, have a gander at the so called green parties around the world and you’ll find they are all going down the same Ess bend.
I did indeed Lou your “eagle eye” spot on as usual, was tying way too fast buddy but hey even “Floundered” covers them imho. Cheers
All is not rosy (mushroom-y) at the bottom of Dingly Dell, can’t we just wave a wand and they all vanish
You have to say the magic words at the ballot box.
Now Jack, they are suffering from a protein deficiency which is obviously affecting their judgement!
In reality, this is a result of letting in the watermelons and thereby setting up an inner cabal in what was once Brown’s own Green Party. Either the Eastern Bloc prevails or they will wreck the joint.
I prescribe red meat and lots of it.
Don’t come over to my place with that prescription. My wife went off to one of those detox retreats last week. I not only got the rounds of the kitchen for having my traditional bacon and eggs for breakfast before golf yesterday, I got home starving last night to get served a plate of bloody lentils and veg for dinner.
I am seriously off greens of all types. Payback is Wagyu burgers tonight, I’m thinking I’ll have to eat both of them.
Hang on in there Lou. Mine did the same thing about 6 months ago but soon returned to the ‘flock, ‘herd’, ‘school’ whatever you want to call it!
Bacon and cheese on the burgers!
Mmmmm bacon…..pork belly…. pork crackling….ham hocks…Joe hockey….
Ahh, you will never be Australian until you add beetroot to your hamburger.
I remember with great relish in the early 90’s Dee Margetts in an interview stating that she was not a member of the Greens but of the Greens WA. Apparently the WA mob had split from the Australian over some doctrinal dispute. It even better when she and Christabel Chamarette appeared at the gay mardi grass as the Gumnut babies…
That is the genesis of it. The Greens were a collective of state based parties. Brown created the national structure but it is subordinate to the estates to this day.
Not so much a party as a loose coalition of warring tribes…
Sounds like you are describing the Looters and Labor.
That puts them in good company with the Libs and Labor UQ.
Labor has managed to formalize it and keep it under control to a degree.
Open warfare within the Libs who seem hell bent on destroying themselves..
The current fiasco between the players and CA is a good reflection of today’s society.
The players see themselves as partners with CA whereas the chairman of CA supposedly sees them as employees and refuses to compromise. (Never give a person the title manager – anybody under their control becomes a subordinate.) Never mind the fact that we struggle to get 15 world class players at any one time and without that 15 there is no cricket team..
The refusal to compromise is rife in this country and if not corrected will lead to a very bleak future.
Our friends in Canberra have unwittingly set up this national trait and should look very closely at themselves.