Shadow - have you ever visited the Greens' website? It's more than a one policy party.
I used to live with someone who worked for the Greens and spoke with Bob Brown every so often
I knwo what they stand for and the majority of their policies but was speaking more about how they are viewed
most people know them only as a "hippy party" and part of a "radical fringe" (how they were recently referred to in a National Party pamphlet)
ask any fucked up Bundie-swelling fuck-knuckle piece of shit Bogan what they know of the Greens and, other then fuck all, is "they're that bunch of fucking ferals who want us to stop mining and hug trees and reffos and shit!"
if you have seen their latest ad (which Gurin Nation paid out) it does nothing to help them or offer up a policy which might see them as different from Labour or the Libs
they are either too unknown or too far away from what the average (read ignorant) voter knows and people find them had to support
now, they are getting a lot of older babyboomer generation voters and supports but it isn't really enough to push them in for contention
my real genuine hope is that they can do what happened in Tasmania and take over the Senate enough that they hold enough sway on the cross bench that things will have to be debated and they can affect some
real change
I so want to see that and to really see the political landscape change from the stiflingly conservative one we have seen for the past 15 years or so
Labour has given the Greens their preferences and it seems so far that the Greens have given their preferences back to Labour in return for some considerations
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