Posts tagged The Greens
Skirts, Swings, and Senators
Aug 27th
That any Australian could luxuriate in the comfort of our physical, philosophical and political safety and comfort, and not equally sympathise with the suffering and loss on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but rather unconditionally vilify one side over another is tantamount to the political amorality of 1930s Germany.
Is Carbon Tax Economic Vandalism?
Mar 14th
Recent tragedies in Japan must inform a debate on coal alternatives such as nuclear energy, not stifle it. If the Greens want to be taken seriously, they must allow and participate in such a debate without hysteria, and without vilifying their opponents. The only sources of ‘base-power’ are coal and nuclear. All others are complimentary,…
Earth’s climate crisis ain’t necessarily so
Jan 28th
WHILE the Gillard government’s climate-change parliamentary committee plots to wreck Australia’s economy with a rigged market to make motoring and electricity unaffordable as soon as the new Greens-infected Senate starts work in July, thoughtful pollies are at last – privately, quietly – beginning to ask the Gershwin question.
Does Labor Always Need To Cheat?
Nov 4th
Labor has no upper house to rubber stamp or stop their government’s stupid decisions. They have no legal requirement to be truthful to the remaining house of our elected representatives (a la Gordon Nuttall). And now they want to rort the electoral system, the one remaining hope of holding this government to account for its record of failure and inaction.
The Greens’ Assault on Society
Nov 3rd
I am so tired of Bob Brown and The Greens constantly attacking the fabric of our society. Moral regression is the detail in most of their policies, and labels of extremism hurled at conservatives is their chorus. When will we be able to rest assured that no one is trying to unweave the social fabric woven with family units, the holy definition of the sacrament of marriage, and the absolutely paramount value of all human life in whatever condition we find it? “Traditional” is not always a pejorative term, it can also be synonymous with “proven”.
