All fine words, but meaningless in application.

The electorate is now able to judge the Greens by their behaviour in government where for example, they have frustrated so many government policies and at the same time always claimed any credit that was going. The Greens rolled logs in front of the government's policy on illegal immigrants and as a result people smugglers flourish and more people have died at sea.

Julia Gillard is weak in handling the exasperating, treacherous Greens and refers to them as a protest party without any interest or commitment to a broad coherent and coordinated policy for government. In this case she is right.

Dear onthebeach,

Regardless of what you of the Greens it is not Greens' policy for unlimited immigration to Australia as you claimed.

david f,

In that case you might like to state what population limit the Greens have decided, what annual immigration limit the Greens have decided and what illegal immigration target the Greens have decided.

The Greens talk about sustainable population, but apart from sledging young Aussie couples as 'breeders' for wanting families and children the Greens do SFA. Never have they expressed any limit for immigration. Always the same old same old cringeworthy worshipping of anyone and any cultural practice from outside.

Australia achieved and maintained zero population growth decades ago - at the behest of academics and government. However, government continually sought new records of immigration to serve the building industry's demand for more business and big business's demand for cheap, non-unionised labour. 'Growth' and 'Big Australia' say K Rudd and others.

Any over-population is directly and solely attributable to immigration and over-enthusiastic immigration at that. Yet the feckless Greens are only offended by Aussie 'breeders' and Aussie children. How does that figure?

Dear onthebeach,

It doesn't figure because it isn't true. You are not interested in the actual policies of the Greens. You dismissed them as just words. You have made your own picture of the Greens which has nothing to with reality.

david f,

Here again are the questions you ducked:

"In that case you might like to state what population limit the Greens have decided, what annual immigration limit the Greens have decided and what illegal immigration target the Greens have decided."

onthebeach:

You wrote: "Here again are the questions you ducked:

In that case you might like to state what population limit the Greens have decided, what annual immigration limit the Greens have decided and what illegal immigration target the Greens have decided."

I have ducked nothing. I posted the Greens' population policy in full, but you dismissed it as just words. I can just add my own views, but I have no authority to speak for the Greens.