Most 'greenies' I know are not like this SM but then where I live there is no inner city as such.

Greenie is a label it does not mean anything, actions are counts.

Anyone can call themselves a greenie, I could call myself a famous celebrity that looks like Elle McPherson, it doesn't make it true. (Although there is a remarkable resemblance. ;))

Bad editing on my part. Should have read "actions are what count".

I thought you'd be against political funding pelican. One dollar one vote and all that. These 'independent' get-up type lot are just another way of doing things.

Instead of Unions funding party which then launches TV campaign, or Miners funding coalition who then launches TV campaign, it's cutting out the middle men these days. So then the partys can wash their hands of the content of the propaganda, and there really are some people who have no idea they are just front groups for the party. Like most 'independents' on the tablecloth ballot papers. Democracy is very sick indeed; PPP and 'commercial in confidence', hiring 'consultants' to give supposed 'independence' to policy commissioned for party funding purposes. Pipers, tunes, accountability, transparency, the age of non-journalism and copy and paste from press releases.

I had you down for more of an idealist, or communist.

Do you really want the party with the biggest 'war chest' and the most celebrities to always be the winner? I never would have had you down as a fan of American style politics.

Is Cate clouding your normal moral compass? Or is she just the right kind of political interference. Are you a libertarian only when it furthers your political agenda, but a socialist when The Rodent and The Monk are involved?

Haha! Ends, means, it all sounds so deliciously machiavellian.

Define political funding? A group of people funding their own Ad is not anti-democracy and I don't even agree with the Carbon Tax.

"I had you down for more of an idealist, or communist."

Yeah right...stirring the possum again.

Libertarian Schlibertarian.

SM,

It is definitely - a case of "what I say, and what I do." Abbott and Hockey want it both ways - arguing that the government has been a profligate spender that will never return the budget to surplus - while simultaneously excoriating it for its minor cuts to so called "middle-class welfare." The refusal to use the budget reply to present a meaningful alternative to the government's policies makes it all the harder to take this Opposition seriously.

most actors are so morally bereft they can't help but to take up self righteous causes. Humans who think they control the climate are totally deluded by their own sense of importance. Cate would do a lot better to get her hands dirty and clean up some litter instead of trying to joing the foolish leftist íntellects'.