"The Greens are that alternative now"

The Greens are not left wing, they are ideologically motivated elitists who disdain the normal recipients of left wing compassion to the point of misanthropy.

The Greens are the ones pushing AGW and the 'solutions' to it which will greatly reduce the lifestyles of the average citizen.

The Greens are the ones pushing the current situation with illegal immigrants and the responsibility for the deaths of people on the boats should be laid entirely at their feet.

The Greens hate Australia, and currently the Greens receive NO critical analysis and their pernicious influence pervades the media, education and the bureacracies.

The left/right dichotomy no longer applies; it is the Green misanthropy vs the pro-human philosophies.

Bruce is off his medication again!

Best take a bex, a cuppa, & a quick lie down mate.

What ever conceived harm the right, or someone of the right did you is over now mate, so these vindictive outbursts do nothing for any one, you in particular.

It really is brilliant that anyone on the left can complain about balance in the media. Perhaps they can't see our ABC, academia, education & bureaucrats, or glanced at that bastion of the left, the UN. None of them have a clue what it is.

I am ready to dance on the political grave of the left.

But I fear I will have some time to wait. Like bad smells, they seem to linger, their noses stuck in the public trough.

Ahhg, with a mishmash of subjective judgements on what is Right or Left, based on cherry-picked history, the author, OLO's Duracell Bunny, keeps on going and going... ad nauseum.

Planta

I agree with some of the previous posters as to being absolutely incredulous over articles such as this which suggest that the Left has little or no influence. I also agree wholeheartedly with Peter Lang about their dominance of the media.

Its not that the Right doesn't have a substantial presence in the media, of course they do, but they just don't strongly cover many of the issues which the Left regard as their pet causes.

In particular resource-use environmental issues, which are therefore in most cases only covered in the media from a Green-Left perspective meaning that resource use industries struggle to have any voice at all in defence of how they operate. Presumably this lies at the heart of Gina Rhinehart's disagreement with Fairfax mdia over editorial influence.

I think the problem of supporters of the Left (like Mr Haigh) in failing to recognise left-leaning influence is largely one of not knowing anything much about their pet causes. After a lifetime as a forester, I can easily see the inherent Green-Left bias in most reporting of this topic, but I suspect most lay people can't recognise it ..... so unless a journalist or politician is strongly advocating some extreme Left position, such as the end of the timber industry for example, they are regarded as Right-wing.

Entirely over the top horse feathers and bird's fur. The intervention didn't make good entertainment on the nightly TV. But as many concerned Aborigines will confirm, it did work.
As did welfare quarantining.
Finally we saw humbugging alcoholics/drug addicts, forced to surrender part of the income they effectively pissed up against the wall and instead, become essential nutrition in the bellies of seriously deprived and abused children.
Some of our more vocal posters seem to abhor that result and or the intervention, that for the first time, ensured some of the formerly abused children, were finally able to sleep safe in their own beds.
Some of our posters also reject that outcome on the entirely spurious grounds, that it was a forced white fella outcome.
Lets get real here, the black fella autonomous model created the problems.
Albeit, there remain some funding issues, that made houses that cost a tad over a $100,000 to build almost anywhere else, reportedly cost around a million each, inside NT Aboriginal communities.
And a result, I believe, attributable to a state based Labour administration, patently skimming the cream off of Federal housing assistance money, as management fees?
There is not a white way, a black way, just a right way.
I strongly reject the premise of the article, and agree wholeheartedly with Foyle. In today's political landscape, there is not a left or right? Just an up or down, or good policy or bad policy?
Rhrosty.