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Australia’s coming emigration – from the Labor Party to the Greens

Christina Macpherson 6 Dec 11 First off, I want to express a personal opinion on the big debate about gay marriage.  I think it was  a bloody great political red herring.  Didn’t the media love it!  Didn’t even the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA – front for fossil fuel industries) love it!   The latter loves it, because they don’t care what we all do in our private lives, just as long as we don’t conserve energy and switch to renewables.

The Australian public ?  I bet that its predominant attitude is –  “I don’t really care: they can marry if they want : now – what’s happening with the cricket? ”

My own attitude – very similar.  Except, when it comes to permission to marry, that I think it’s a bit like when women weren’t really allowed to smoke, by social taboo.  And then they were allowed.  And now heaps of them have got lung cancer.  Why did these poor women ever want to smoke?

Never mind.  That’s personal, and not really political.   But the uranium to India issue.  That’s political.  But wow – the public carry on, the media fuss –  just didn’t happen –  so busy were we all discussing gay marriage, in the media frenzy on that topic.

So the Labor Party just morphed into the Laboral Party, on uranium, and other matters – a political marriage – they will surely be wed soon.  

And where can they go – the Labor Party members of intelligence and conscience?  Well fortunately – there’s The Greens!

December 6, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews