Beach, you continually attack The Greens as a "protest party" yet The Greens present an extensive array of policies which you never make reference to.
You refer to us as a "Trotskyist outfit" some members may well be these Trotskyists people you refer to, The Greens appeals to a broad section of society. You present yourself as a conservative, but some conservatives are thinly veiled national socialists. I find it difficult to find your parties policies on anything of substance.

http://australiafirstparty.net/

I'd dearly love to know what a professional shooter is.

what qualifications are necessary?

I'm now in my 81st year, been shooting/hunting without supervision for 70 years, have represented NSW in pistol shooting, did 6 years regular Army, 12 months of which was on active service (hence I am a trained killer).
I am recognized by the Courts as a firearms expert, thanks to my later military training and my employment in the Dept. of Defence on firearms.
I have been the expert on Military and Naval Boards of Inquiry into firearms related matters, including serious injury to service personnel because of accidents.
I have been hunting in all Australian States except WA and Tasmania.

These days I only hunt on a few properties that belong to friends as I don't wish to jump through the hoops to hunt in a State forest or a National Park.
I might as well add that I only hunt with .22s and black powder muzzle loaders, black powder guns are frowned upon by the Greens as they don't consider them to be powerful enough for a clean kill; such ignorance is endemic to the breed.

Paul1405,

To correct you once again,

- No, I don't present myself as anything else but an ordinary citizen with a concern for government demonstrating value for money for the taxes compulsorily taken from me; and

- I quote a Labor Prime Minister's assessment of the Greens. As you would be ware from my posts. See here form my reply to another poster where I gave a link to a video to refresh her memory as well,

<If you (Foxy) want to burn someone for describing the Greens as 'just a protest' party it will have to be ex-PM Julia. Here Julia is on the news, in video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJ5NqpOU78

Julia added that she, "always knew the Greens would revert to type and they have done so".

She should know too, after being in partnership with the treacherous Greens who sabotaged her government daily and jumped in first where they could see some kudos.>

Dear Paul,

It seems that there is a malignant thought
form that "other people are the problem."

Conservatives tend to blame anyone with whose
views they don't agree from the Greens, Laborites,
Progressives, and so on for our problems. While
Laborites, Greens, Progressives, et cetera- tend to blame
conservatives. The media blames whatever Mr Murdoch
dictates (usually everyone) and almost everyone
blames Muslims, and so it goes.

Some people think that Gays are the problem, while
others think that Emily Listers, and our Indigenous
People and Immigrants and Asylum Seekers and
Multiculturalism are the problem.
Still others blame the Christian Right. The entire culture
seems to have become a hysterical blame session.

Yet as we've discussed so many times in the past on this forum -
a healthy vital society is not one in which we all agree.
It is one in which those who disagree can do so and
respect other people's opinions and an appreciation of our
shared humanity.

Without personal commitment to the atributes of fair play
and integrity, we are in great danger. Malice and intolerance
stalk our society and not one corner of our society is
unaffected.

The only way to protect our freedom is to try to see to it
that our political conversation must shift away from the
mass infantile finger-pointing that now pervades it.

It isn't the Greens, or Labor or the Coalition who have
ruined or are ruining this country: it is the tendency on
some people's parts to think that their way is the
right way and that people who disagree with them are bad.

Greens' policies, long on rhetoric but short on practicality.

cont'd ...

As you can see from reading certain posts here
and in other discussions. Certain people
divide things into those who are "Respectable
Upstanding Citizens," and then the ones that
they see and describe as "whatshername," or
"Barking Mad Greens," et all.

And the Band plays on!