With a following of 1.3 million, Bob brown has done a great job for what he stands for. That is what our politics is all about.
Abbott couldn't even bring himself to congratulate him for his 16 years as parliamentarian.
There should be a conspiracy here somewhere. CIA, ASIO, RSPTU.

You people are strange.

579, I would not congratulate Hitler, or Starlin for their time in politics, why would anyone congratulate Brown? He has been about as much use, & green ideas, such as the abandonment of DDT, have killed about as many innocents as either of them.

Only when I see greens, actively fighting against some of the nuttier ideas they continually generate, will any of them gain any respect from me.

The fact that he has pushed a bad ideas well is not something to be happy with, it is something to decry, & be sorry about.

Dear Hasbeen,

A closed mind is like a closed book -
just a piece of wood. Why don't you
read the following link - you just
may learn something about what Bob Brown
has actually achieved:

http://newmatilda.com/2012/04/13/bob-brown-resigns

Just the fact that Bob Brown has conducted himself with
a decency and courtesy that is sadly rare in modern
politics will make Australian public life poorer by
his departure. But I guess to each his own.

There are certain men with one-eyed views
Who persist in proclaiming everything's askew
They post on forums for all to see
Sadly their messages contain - only N E G A T I V I T Y.

As a Grate Australian he is responsible for more social-economic damage to our nation than even Gillard.

Whatever it was the he stood for is now a minority issue for Australians. The CAGW issue is being dismantled internationally and here in Australia. He is right to take option 2. “Bail out now” and Christine Milne is too stupid to realize that the glass of chardonnay she holds is actually the poisoned chalice, dumb and dummer.

We can be forever grateful that whatever he stood for will be obliterated politically at the next election. The Greens primary support is in decline from a high of 14% to a flat line of about 9%. They cannot survive a 30% loss of support, neither can they survive the changed flow of preferences that have emerged since the last election.

They will lose their only lower house seat and they will lose the balance of power in the Senate. They are delightfully gone. RIP

Bad bloke that I am I find myself nearer spindoc and hasbeen here, not tightly, but nearer than the nice warm cuddles.
Arjay, Nemesis it not a word to describe Peak.
Abbott is Gillards Nemesis.
I hope to be for a long while,hasbeen, and spindocs Nemesis,
It infers something like ability to beat every time.
Brown changed as he went along he deserves his time at his age out of the spotlight.
Ajay's view of him is far from balanced, but not alone here.

Belly,

It's understandable that you would find yourself aligned with Hasbeen and spindoc on this one. Bob Brown's Greens represented a haven for disaffected Laborites when Labor lurched to the right. You've made it known often that you see Brown and the Greens as threat to Labor's base.

It's kinda like the way the lower middle-class mercilessly criticise the working class. They feel threatened by a group that has similar origins, attractions and aspirations - a group to whom they feel superior and a greater sense of entitlement.