Antinuclear

Greens in South Australia must stop giving preferences to Labor-Liberal duopoly

Dennis Matthews, 9 Feb 15 Greens MP Mark Parnell has criticised Jay Weatherill’s opportunistic decision to look at ways of promoting the nuclear industry in SA (The Advertiser, 9/2/15) but it was Greens preferences in the Fisher by-election that gave Weatherill the ammunition to launch his pro-nuclear attack.

The ALP’s narrow victory in Fisher gave them the extra seat to be able to govern in their own right. If the Such-endorsed independent had been elected then the status-quo would have been maintained and Weatherill would have had to delay his pro-nuclear ambitions.

Weatherill’s about-face was preceded by the Rann back-flip on uranium mining in SA.

Thanks to SA Greens long-standing preference deals with the ALP we are now headed towards a pro-nuclear agenda that the Greens have long fought against.

It’s time for the SA Greens to distance themselves from the Labor-Liberal duopoly, to stand on their own two feet, and to not support anti-Greens policy by default.

February 9, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News