Not fit for politics
Senator Milne said the Greens would introduce legislation to put a price on carbon as soon as the next parliament sits and said Labor would have “no excuses” to delay an emissions trading scheme if the Greens win the balance of power in the Senate.
“Prime Minister Gillard has shown a complete and utter lack of leadership on climate change, What we have heard is recycled rhetoric for the last four years, what we haven’t heard is any commitment to action,” she said, in Canberra.
So now we know. A vote for Labor is a vote for the Greens, which is a vote for an economy-wrecking carbon tax.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
To repeat a thought I expressed on 2sm in the early hours of Thursday morning,
The coalition may be better off targeting the greens leading up to the election, than to target labor. If you can damage the green vote enough, you weaken labors chances of re-election.
Run adverts on themes like struggling to afford electricity, it will only get worse if you vote green.
Struggling to afford fresh produce, it will only get worse as green laws restrict farmers ability to produce.
Enjoy fishing, enjoy it now before the greens introduce more marine parks.
I’m interested if others agree on this approach.
The problem is that the Greens are wacko and Gillard has a policy greener and cleaner than the greenest of the Green demands: the sustainable australia. Gillard has been talking up “saying No to a Big Australia” accompanied by a “sustainable Australia” concept and the recent renaming of the Population Czar.
Well it all makes perfect sense, and for a politician to be talking sense is quite a rare thing indeed. It is unfortunate that the Greens are going to muddy the waters about this. A vote for the most sensible election platform in living memory is also going to be a vote for the Green Death.
Isn’t this false democracy wonderful.
Sorry, scrub the “platform” part, since that suggests Labor’s entire grab-bag of electoral utterances is somehow commendable. I said “platform” but I meant only the “sustainable Australia” part. If they promised nothing but work towards sustainability then they’d have my vote, but unfortunately they seem to be the greens in disguise right now.