Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon and her media adviser ghost-wrote a controversial article attacking her party for accepting a $1.68 million donation from internet entrepreneur Graeme Wood.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Greens have peaked
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Bile Green is the mainstream media’s preferred shade of self-colouring
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Crikey Says: Milne’s Greens ascension is good news for Labor
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Political snippets: Labor’s false hopes about the Greens
So the ALP is hoping that the retirement of Bob Brown as parliamentary leader of the Greens will give them the chance to claw back votes from those nasty lefties.
Milne steals the Greens spotlight
Crikey media wrap: Greens figurehead Bob Brown may have resigned on Friday but the weekend’s media has been dominated by Christine Milne asserting herself as the new leader of the Greens.
Counting the cost of a pokies Greens Lantern
This morning, Greens Senator Richard Di Natale back-flipped from the party’s previous line on poker machines — abandoning mandatory pre-commitment technology and agitating instead for the roll out low-intensity pokies based on new $1 bet limits.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Greens and GetUp!
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Media briefs: Tele beat-ups … Oz’s digital challenge …
Another day, another complaint about political reporting in The Daily Telegraph. But, was that really an exclusive? and other media tidbits of the day.
Newspoll: disaffection for both parties
Newspoll has the Coalition lead up from 56-44 to 57-43, from primary votes of 27% for Labor (down two), 47% for the Coalition (steady) and a solid 14% for the Greens (up two), reports William Bowe.
Rundle: broken abroad, News is losing its war against the Greens
It was instructive to see News Corporation’s fortunes falling, as the Australian Greens were rising.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Aussie Aussie actors, oi oi oi
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Crikey Says: Beware the vengeful goblins
The Herald Sun infantilised its readers by warning them today of “vengeful goblins” and how Brown was a “threat to democracy”.
Rundle: Greens are outflanking both sides on foreign ownership
The Greens strategic path is obvious, and half-completed. To outflank Labor, march through the heartland, and connect to rural Australians increasingly disturbed by the conflict between farming and mining.
A Greener senate prepares to greet the day
Today is the last day in office for retiring senators who were elected in October 2004. And that means that the nine Greens senators — up from five in the old senate — will hold the balance of power in their own right.
A Green welcome for Labor refugees
The Greens should be preparing to receive the next lot of refugees from Labor.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Lamenting the dumbing down of politics
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Guy Rundle: Extreme, maybe, but how much can the Greens stand for?
The ethical core of Green politics is that collectively and democratically, people should have control over those parts of human existence that are intrinsically shared and universal.
Political snippets: Familiarity brings boredom if not contempt
There’s nothing surprising really ab0ut South Australian Premier Mike Rann suffering another decline in his popularity rating.
That one seat represents more than 1.4 million Australians
The Green extremists are holding the majority hostage, even though they only have one seat, claims the right wing commentariat. But that one seat and voice in parlimanent represents the 11.76% of Australians who voted for them, writes Jeremy Sear.
Not quite a gay marriage victory
The Australian has framed news that the Commonwealth will have less power over vetoing state and territory laws as a win for Greens’ Leader Bob Brown on gay marriage. But it goes far beyond whatever power Brown yields in parliament, writes Amber Jamieson.
Muslims don’t fit into a simple left v right debate
Last week Fairfax columnist Paul Sheehan fed the idea that Islam is a monolithic entity that’s fundamentally incompatible with western values. That’s what’s wrong with the current debate about Islam, says writer and filmmaker Ruby Hamad.
Political snippets: Greens see red over Gillard’s flood levy
Cutting spending on proposals to aid development of alternative energy and limit green house gas emissions is something the Greens just cannot accept.
Crikey Blogs / Monday, 1 August 2011
There are dangers of a political party publishing comments as if it were a media organisation. On the Liberal Party’s liberal.org.au website, comments inciting violence against the Greens remain, notes Jeremy Sear.