The Greens Party has a lot of influence in Australian politics these days.

Last weekend’s Tasmanian state election has increased it.

The Tasmanian Greens look like getting 5 members elected, alongside 10 Labor and 10 Liberal.

That will give them the casting vote on everything — no matter which major party nominally governs.

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It would be a worry living in a state where the Greens received 5 votes — let alone 5 seats.

The Greens Party favour:

 *  legal recognition of same-sex “marriages”

 *  easier access to abortion

 *  destruction of human embryos by scientists to get stem cells to experiment on

 *  killing the elderly (“voluntary euthanasia”)

 *  lifting bans on R-18 violent graphic video games

 *  legal prostitution

 *  in vitro fertilisation for unmarried persons including homosexual couples

 *  and the classic – THEY WANT HEROIN LEGALISED – or do they?

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Well, in parliament in May 2009, Greens MP, Cassie O’Connor, said in debate:

“Do you think that every heroin user in Tasmania comes to the attention of police and/or the authorities? Seriously, you really ought to get out more.  Harm minimisation is the key.  We know prohibition is not the solution.  It does not work.”

The people of Tasmania know that she said that.

Nevertheless, according to the intenet at the moment of typing this post, Cassie O’Connor is coming in as eighth-highest vote-getter in this election.

It’s a bit of a worry — unless you want to see Australia become ever more undisciplined, with youth unaware of any concept of right and wrong . . . .

If that’s what you want, then you have just had a good weekend.