GREENS PARTY: Reasons not to even think about voting for them.
Economic reasons:
* the Greens support “super” taxation of the mining industry which will damage Australia’s most successful industry.
* they plan to end Australia’s coal export industry — one of our few decent sources of export income.
* and to close all coal-fired power stations – making electricity dearer for families and industry.
* and desalinating sea water at infinite cost, rather than building dams.
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Internal corruption reasons:
* the party appears to be a fragmented bunch of squabbling factions. Once Bob Brown gives up, there will be no leadership.
* preferences are being allotted without the consent of the candidates concerned. Greens candidate for the seat of McEwen, Steve Meacher, on learning that his preferences had been “sold” as part of a deal that he was never asked about, described fellow-party members in language that this nice, family-oriented blog cannot quote.
* the Greens attack other parties for being “poll-driven” and “populist”, while conducting exactly the same kind of “research” themselves.
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Moral reasons:
* the Greens like occupying the “high moral ground” – e.g. they advocate banning junk food ads in children’s TV time – but favour exposing the same children to classroom indoctrination about the “normal-ness” of homosexual acts.
* they deny the status of traditional marriage as the basis of community life.
* their website says they want “the legalisation of marriage between two consenting adults regardless of sexuality or gender identity.”
* also the legalisation of “access, regardless of sexuality and gender identity, to adoption, fostering, artificial insemination and IVF procedures.”
* they are committed to “ensuring all women have access to legal, free and safe pregnancy termination . . . .”
* they favour the degradation of women (and men) in prostitution and want “to end the criminalisation of consensual adult sex work.”
* they are soft on drugs — promising to “increase the availability of harm reduction programs, including needle and syringe exchanges and medically supervised injecting rooms and implement a rigorous scientific trial of prescribed heroin . . . .”
See also:
www.marymackillop.org/the-greens-party-idealists-or-sociopaths
www.marymackillop.org/a-spectre-is-haunting-australia-the-spectre-of-the-greens-party
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