Greening Australia

11 August 2010

When will Australian’s wake up and realise that the Greens are the left’s equivalent of the right’s one nation – except more extreme. Don’t believe me? Well I was amazed the other night on ABC’s Q and A when Peter Singer who co-authored “The Greens” which is the founding document of the Greens party and he started the Greens in Victoria advocated bestiality. Indeed he wants us to recognise marriages between humans and animals. This is a party who proclaims to be for social justice and refugees (fair enough) but their leader Bob Brown stands side by side with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. They conveniently ignore that Chavez has been arming FARC gorillas in Colombia, a group which uses child soldiers, terrorism, takes hostages and deals drugs to raise money. The greens elastic moral guidelines allow them to field Vlaudin Vega as a candidate in NSW a man who is person non grata in the USA and is a public supporter of the FARC, yet condemn the Australian government’s treatment of David Hicks. I am not condoning David Hick’s treatment but he was treated far better than any hostages which the FARC have taken.

Basically this party is not even remotely fit to govern. Promoting environmentalism and human rights are worthy, legitimate causes and there is nothing wrong with having ‘progressive’ (I hate the term as it implies that other views are not modern) views on gay marriage and other social issues. What I have an issue with is deception and blatent hypocrisy. An ideology which claims to look out for all - especially the poor - only plans to see them lose their jobs. Jobs will be lost with mad proposals such as shutting down all coal mines, consigning more areas to be national parks at the expense of logging jobs and introducing the most restrictive carbon tax out of any nation in the world.

High idealism is great, indeed noble, but when it fails to consider any factor outside its narrow views, it becomes deceitful, hypocritical and dangerous. Now there will always be a protest ultra left movement and that is great, the issue comes when it has the balance of power and calls the shots over one of the two big parties. Already we are seeing the Labor party seed to the Greens by declaring a greater number of national parks, allowing the wild rivers legislation to pass in Northern Queensland and investigating building loss making high speed trains which have already been looked at before. Indeed NSW labor is admitting as much that they are pandering to the Greens to secure their preferences.

With the failure of the democrats the protest vote has few places to go and we can now expect to see more of the Greens whacky ideas make it into Australian law and for us to all be worse off. Whilst we may legitimately want to endorse some of the Greens policies related to the environment, treatment of asylum seekers and allowing gay marriage, we cannot let these issues blind us to the bigger picture. Although the major parties have many imperfections they do not even come close to the lunacy of a party which promotes bestiality and economic destruction.