Oh please, pull the other one....

What happens to the Greens if the faceless ones in the ALP decide they can't win the next election and act to cut their losses? They might choose to remove the current PM in favour of an experienced hand like Simon Crean with Martin Ferguson as deputy and call a snap election to try to catch the Coalition off guard. Their hope would be to limit the loss to a one or two election loss rather than a three or four election loss, as might well be the case now.

An essential element of this tactic would be not to preference the Greens or any independents over the Liberals. The Liberals would probably do the same. Result: no Greens in the Reps and no balance of power in the Senate. It will be back to sit ins in the forest for some Greens and rejoining the Socialist Party for others.

Seems like a reasonable enough assessment of the situation.

This essay describes how the media really works.

http://www.dabase.org/popdisgu.htm

It is particularly the case with right-wing populist "news"-papers and radio shock jocks.

Plus this essay titled Reality Politics For Ordinary Men & Women

http://www.dabase.org/p8realpolitik.htm

Quote: "....the Liberal Party, supported by fewer than 10 per cent [of Australians]...."

I stopped reading after seeing this nonsense. It does not matter whether the author is ill-informed, incompetent, lazy or sloppy; why would anyone take any notice of anything she says about any topic?

Quote: " ..tend to over-focus on pet issues like Coal Seam Gas which, while worthy, do not deliver large amounts of votes"

The Greens are fortunate Ms Wynter has returned to academia given that statement. CSG is not only the most pressing immediate environmental issue in Australia (climate change being the long term one) but it is also a crucial chance for the Greens to broaden their appeal and their base. This one hits the "country cousins" not the inner-city progressives (the Greens already have that vote for crying out loud!) and pushing it hard will see a whole new constituency looking at the Greens in a new light for the first time. If the Greens took Ms Wynters advice they would remain trapped in their urban ghetto, with a vote never rising out of the teens.

To my rather platitudinous and uneducated mind, I firmly believe that after the next federal election all but a very few Greens shall be consigned to the political wilderness for ever and a day !

I don't think anybody with even a modicum of common sense will ever again, trust a Green or a green agenda.

Even I, an arch-conservative, have always harboured even nurtured a very commiserative attitude for protecting our precious environment. However, after the events of the preceding twelve months or so, the Greens have done nothing other than mount an attempt to totally wreck havoc on our country.

For the sake of this once great nation, the Greens MUST go - and go absolutely !