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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The rise of the Greens
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Political snippets: Where are you Glenn Milne?
Bring back Glenn Milne to write politics for the Murdoch Sundays is what I say.
Political snippets: Labor still fancied in Victoria
The strong performance of Greens has certainly given the two major parties plenty to think about.
Kelly: not a new paradigm, just an unholy mess
The NSW Labor government — led by Kristina Keneally, the Greens and the ACTU have formed a “united troika” against the Gillard government. But the NSW government is radioactive, says Paul Kelly.
ALP makes lefty election pitch, but Cleary could spoil
The ALP has moved to shore up its credibility with inner-city leftistes in the lead-up to the Victorian state election, in a last ditch bid to avoid the federal debacle that saw its 104-year old fiefdom of Melbourne fall to the Greens.
Refugee groups join Greens in push for free-kids law
Refugee groups are urging the government to go further with its decision to allow children of asylum seekers to be released from detention, with the Greens pushing for the policy to be enshrined in law.
Odd things in the Green vote
Where the Greens candidates sit on the ballot paper has an impact on the size of the vote they receive, beyond a standard donkey vote. The closer to the top of the ballot paper, the bigger the swing to the Greens candidate. Possum Comitatus explains.
Devine’s got the Greens’ number
Where to begin with Miranda Devine’s hate-mongering column at her new News Ltd digs, “What it really means to be Green”? To start with, it’s not a good sign when your opening salvo is nothing more than a smear by association, says Jeremey Sear.
Mungo MacCallum: Gillard’s safe but her ability to legislate isn’t
Julia Gillard can afford to be reasonably satisfied with the first week of the rest of her government. But the crossbenchers are ready and eager to exploit their temporary power bases, particularly on climate change and the war in Afghanistan.
Political snippets: Turning the television (advertisements) down
The US Senate might not be able to agree on many things but this week there was a unanimous vote to on a bill to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt.
Van Onselen: Gillard’s already choking
Should Labor be celebrating its election victory or staying quietly grateful that it held on? PM Gillard can’t just pander to the Left and the Greens now or she’ll lose her narrow lead, says Peter van Onselen.
A (climate) change in the air
Crikey media wrap: It’s the first day back at school for all the enthusiastic parliamentary members, even though the class hasn’t voted on a deputy speaker yet. But Gillard turned up with a new climate change policy tucked into her lunch box.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Greens’ purpose
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Greens: here for a long time, not just a good time
The massive swing to the Australian Greens at the recent election wasn’t just a flash-in-the-pan protest vote. But they are becoming the strong third party in Australian politics, says Tom Quinn.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Oz’s vs. the Greens: ‘like a mechanic declaring war on Holden’
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Gillard thanked us for being fair and balanced: The Oz editor
The Australian editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell claims Julia Gillard praised the paper’s “fair and balanced coverage”, dismissing renewed criticism from Bob Brown and press gallery veterans over its editorial agenda.
Climate change policy set to steam up Canberra
One of the biggest questions for arising out of the ALP’s day of deliverance by the two country independents is this: what does it mean for climate change and clean energy policies?
Greens-Gillard deal: who wins?
What the Greens will have secured if Labor is able to hang onto office is, in effect, an all care and no responsibility role in a Labor Government, giving the Greens many of the benefits of incumbency without any of the responsibilities.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: and the winner is … the Greens
They’ve dealt with the devil, and the criticism from all the expected sections of the media will be fierce.
Independents need to be able to bend both ways
The Greens, in order to be taken seriously as a third force, need to demonstrate an ability to deal with the Liberal Party, according to Charles Richardson. Until they do, Labor will always be inclined to take them for granted and will face only minimal pressure to accept any of their demands.
Political snippets: Greens the key to government stability
When it comes to the question of whether Australia will emerge with a stable government, the Greens are the key.
Australia’s second climate change election
With the results almost in, it is clear that climate change once again played a major role in the election, but in a very different way than 2007. Of the 5.4% swing against Labor, nearly 70% of it went to the Greens, writes John Hepburn.
No more politics as usual: the Greens break through
The Greens have broken through. They are a potent force that will have a casting vote on contested legislation until 2017 at the earliest.
Welcome to political purgatory
Daily Media Wrap: We’re in a political wasteland, a hung parliament, with no clear PM and power hanging in the hands of five MPs: four independents and a Green. Now what?
