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Disintergration of the Greens or a New Begining?

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[Quote]National Affairs Greens accuse Lee Rhiannon of undermining Bob Brown

by: Christian Kerr From: The Australian November 28, 2011 12:00AM

ANGRY Greens insiders have accused their controversial NSW senator Lee Rhiannon of white-anting party leader Bob Brown over donations.
The Senate backed a motion by Victorian Liberal Helen Kroger last Thursday to refer the Greens leader to the privileges committee over allegations he used his position to assist Wotif travel giant founder Graeme Wood.

Mr Wood last year became the biggest individual political donor in Australian history when he underwrote the Greens' $1.6 million election TV ad campaign.

The motion asks the committee to examine if Senator Brown sought a benefit from Mr Wood to act in his interest. It also asks if Mr Wood improperly influenced Greens deputy Christine Milne.

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In contrast, Senator Rhiannon is seen as a "watermelon Green" -- red on the inside. She had a long involvement in hard-left politics and was a member of the Socialist Party of Australia.

Senator Rhiannon has defied her party leader before, most notably over her support for the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.[un-quote] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/greens-accuse-lee-rhiannon-of-undermining-bob-brown/story-fn59niix-1226207505459

LOL.
Posted by Is Mise, Monday, 28 November 2011 7:33:39 PM
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having met the guy
and finding him condecending and arrogant
its not strange many in his own party arnt decieved

i recall him sitting in front of his house
with smoke belching from his chimminy
belching cancerous woodsmoke

[wood smoke is the highest cause of lung cancer]
noting smoking tobacco..rates 3rd

diesal sooty smoke
is the 2 de highest cause of luing cancer

[i recalled all them global warming scares
showing STEAM belching from chimminies..

NOTING c02 in invisable]

i once allowed the grens to suck an monthly stipend from my savings
till i came accross a m,eting of the greens one day

and was refused entry

the greens are just an other party
party stooges sreve certain adgendas
whats that dudes link to silar..or wind...
or the other govt gifts/subsidies to greenie industry

gren jobs are putting german or chinese solar cells on ya roof
then the dole till they get busted up in a hail storm

or lubricating the wind mill..on the run
all over au..or the world..in the end
chinese will fly in to do the job cheaply..[contractors]

and your green job will be bring them their breakfast
loading and unloading their baggage

anyhow couldnt happen to a more sneaky guy
who proves..you are..what you put in your mouth
Posted by one under god, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 8:55:03 AM
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It would be a sad day if the Greens followed the other two parties down the track of in-fighting and mixed allegiances. Tony Abbott's own Opposition Front Bench, many who are known to loathe each other.

The ALP is the same with in-factional allegiances and ideological pulls and pushes between the Left and the Neo-Liberals.

However, if there is nothing untoward in the donation (donations are legal as long as they are recorded over a certain amount) referral to the Privileges Committee should not cause any concern.

Wood donated the money out of his personal wealth not from Wotif. And according to the link below did it due to his personal belief that not enough was being done about climate change. He is not a member of the Greens.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/wotif-a-rich-man-helped-the-greens-20110107-19ix2.html

What exactly is it that Bob Brown is purported to have 'assisted' with? Without knowing this, it is nothing more than rumour-mongering. But then it is The Australian. More facts please.
Posted by pelican, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 9:56:34 AM
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I know lee indeed is what Australians call a water melon.
A tough fearless lady she is, in my view untrust Worthy.
And in my view, better placed in the COMMUNIST PARTY.
In a thread such as this comments will come from under informed.
From total bias even hate.
Such comment, aimed at ANY PARTY is non productive
I know, based on observations, Greens will dip after Brown leaves not die but dip dramatically.
That new beginning may well come, but not until the body's are buried.
Here, in OLO some claim as an anti Labor insult, the greens are radical/activists walking in the shoes of the ALP of 1950 and the period to 1980.
That is like a crow bragging it is about to eat the python rapped around its neck.
Australia is over such rubbish.
Greens must confront both sides of the house are likely to stop preference them.
And that wise council will push both sides toward Conservation.
To do so, sadly but honestly, that word will need laundering.
80% Of us see the term as dirty , silly harsh blind actions of the greens,fringe supporters are to blame.
You in conversation with a green be told *we are not tree hugger* we have policy's*
It is those policy's, true take a look at them,that hobble the greens.
All in I still think, if they stop being a refugee camp for extreme left, 25% of their number.
And stop loading the platform with extremist radical policy's.
In time, after the wounds heal 20 years?
They may rise again, the double dissolution Abbott plans, no easy thing to say, or to remember Rudd failed the guts test in not have his , is full of promise for me, my country should never be controlled by a minority.
Posted by Belly, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 3:52:58 PM
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pity there are any parties that really care about looking after the environment. The Greens have done nothing more than adopted a humanistic (human hating) philosophy whereby they see themselves as some sort of saviours of the planet. Unfortunately their moral relativism blinds them of any true decency.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 4:01:31 PM
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The Australian is a disgrace to journalism.

In fact the Greens are consolidating their support in Australia , simply by loaning the policies of the Labor Party from 20 yrs ago. Which is precisely why I will be voting for the Greens at the next Federal election, despite the fact that I have conservative concerns about their social agenda.

My above scenario does not show up in opinion polls advertised by the Australian.

Did the Australian identify todays assertion by ratings agencies that the Australian economy is now sound and of the highest AAA rating because of work done by Gov't in the 80's and early 90's. All at time before the Howard Gov't, that actually and instead weakened the country through the sale of essential services assets to consign debt. Debt that was not very high then as it is not very high now.

In fact the one thing the Gov't could do too damage the economy now would be to bring the budget back to surplus through cuts. Exactly what Joe Hockey was telling us we should do on radio today, whilst denying the $70 b black hole in their stupid budget.

The only time the LNP ran a surplus, (for what that's worth) is when they sold our essential infrastructure to their buddies in the business sector, whom now control our economy.

I am sick of credit not being given where it is due, by instruments of media propaganda like the Australian, in support of the myth that the LNP can manage the economy.

The real architects of the modern Australian economy the Labor Party, (meaning Paul Keating), is now advising the Chinese Gov't on their economy from the board of the China Development Bank.

How stupid is that ?. It was media outlets like the Australian that supported the election of John Howard (who could not get a job on a cricket board) over one of the proven best economic minds of the modern world Paul Keating.

I would not use Murdoch's Australian newspaper to line the bottom of a cocky's cage.
Posted by thinker 2, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 6:22:02 PM
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