CJ, by defination, 49% of the population are of below average intelligence, so it shouldn't be too hard for the greens to pick up a few votes.

Nice to see that Hasbeen's political analysis is as astute and perspicacious as ever. It's also nice that he's a self-acknowledged 'has been'.

Personally, my political preferences tend towards 'is now'.

King Hazza, please understand, this is not an intention to discredit you.
In my opinion you truly have far too much self confidence, and far too little understanding.
I note your blast about ETS then ignoring the fact you do not understand[ please do not quote the recent greens offer] greens want a far harsher one.
You prove nothing, it is ridiculous to think your defense policy is other than Alice in Blunder land stuff.
Yesterday, a man dressed as an injured police man climbed into an Ambulance and killed himself and thirty others on getting to hospital.
Iran is , it is you know, building a Nuclear bomb.
You ask what danger?
We are confronted now with a dreadful primitive idea death is a reward for murder and you think we should stay home, turn our back on agreements that we put in place after another country saved us.
I till Idle will respect C J Morgan and the greens he thinks he supports.
That however is not todays greens.
We could have a basic ETS now, greens voted against it, greens vote against much they once would have suported, tell me in what way is fielding that waste of air any less a fraud for his party's name than Bob Brown?

CJ Morgan I completely agree with you- and particularly think your take on the other commentators is likely spot-on.

Hasbeen- if 49% of the electorate are idiots- what makes you think they're not voting the Labor Party and Liberals?
You can't seriously tell me a person who supports them even after all of these years is smart (except, say, Alan Moss, wink).

Alas Belly, you ARE a lost cause. I might have actually taken you seriously if you didn't keep playing up the phony fairy-tale pacifist policy and try to mope about the ETS as if nobody told you why. Playing dumb does NOT look clever to other people reading it.

So Iran are totally going to build a nuke and launch them at Australia out of pure spite, am I correct? Did it ever occur to you that MAYBE, this started to happen ever since Iran and North Korea were added to the axis of evil- a list of countries that America has started to make up reasons to invade- and whose second-leading election candidate endorsed invading- MIGHT have something to do with it?
Think about it- a power surrounded by Nuclear nations- most Nukes held by its three 'enemies' (USA, UK, Israel)- it'll just try it luck?

The US hasn't ever 'saved us', by the way. They definitely gave a HUGE amount of manpower helping us fight Japan (who declared war against both of us because we were allies of UK and France). But I think that since then, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, a Free-Trade-Agreement, and the fact we've let them use our naval and airspace for the past few decades makes up for it?
So you say that a country must dedicate itself to overseas wars out of gratitude alone?
But didn't your Labor Party pull our troops out of Iraq?
So much for their gratitude.

What I'm amazed is you don't actually want me to show you any policies to correct you- why would that be?

PS- don't try to ignore CJs points either- although I doubt you will address them with real examples or counter-arguments either.

CJ, thanks for being so predictable. I threw out my tung in cheek statments expecting a personal attack from you.

Hazza, I did not say 49% of the population were idiots, I said they were of below average intelligence, a statistical fact. Idiots would require a much higher percentage.

Meanwhile, please stop castigating people for not understanding your policies. If your party is so incompetent it can not articulate its policies to the voter, it is certainly too incompetent to be in government, or even parliament.

As what you post here is more than somewhat different to that espoused regularly by that fool Brown, we have to wonder what they truely are.

In view of this, should we believe that most of you don't know your own policies, or perhaps, that you are worried that if you do make your policies clear, the general public will run a mile.

Better the fuzzy "save the trees" rubbish, than the truth perhaps?

Um, how is MY knowledge of Greens policies 'fuzzy' when I actually read them, Hasbeen?

If there are any I missed- be it a crazy quote from Bob Brown or something from the site, do feel free to make a quote.
If you are correct, it should be INCREDIBLY easy to find one, if not hundreds to throw on this forum.
If you can't even manage this, maybe you should actually think about it before posting.

As for policy articulation- indeed it could be better (ie advertising some of them):

Although keep in mind that aside from neither the Liberals or Labor doing much articulation themselves of their own policy (especially at election time), is the slight problem that Liberal and Labor get more screen time because they have more money (a portion of which donated).
Because the Greens and most minor parties do not accept donations- they have less money to buy screentime.

This is just going downhill- the only thing to actually talk about requires one side refusing to inform themselves and refusing to provide their own information and seemingly would rather be ignorant and accept spin info than suffer the embarassment of actually visiting the Greens site, but somehow knowing deep down inside that they're right.

And one last thing to point out- why is it that you people who claim to have visited the site have so much difficulty describing one policy?
Out of curiosity, do you people visit ANY policy pages of other parties? Ever?
Can you name, say, a single One Nation policy not related to immigration, racialism or multiculturalism (as advertised by the media)? OR a single Democrat policy? Or what the aim is for the SOS party?
If you feel you don't need to know, why do you need to post what you think of political parties here?