Brown predicts more Greens in Canberra after next election
June 14, 2012


Former Greens leader Bob Brown says he has no regrets about quitting federal parliament and predicts there will be three more Greens senators after the next federal election.    :)

Senator Brown said that if the Greens kept up poll results similar to their current 14 per cent primary vote, they will boost their numbers in federal parliament.

''There will be three more senators for a start, but there will be more Greens in the parliament,'' he told reporters in Canberra today.    :)


The Greens had a 11.8 per cent primary vote in the 2010 election and have nine Greens senators and one lower house MP (deputy leader Adam Bandt) in Canberra.   :)

''Look at those polls for the Greens, they've gone up since I got out. Quite clearly I should have done it earlier,'' he joked.

Tomorrow Senator Brown - who resigned as Greens leader in April - will formally resign from the Senate.

''And that's that,'' he said.

Senator Brown joined the Senate in 1996 and had been leader of the Australian Greens since 1992.

He insisted that in hindsight, he had no regrets about his decision to go: ''I'm very happy''.

It's not all smooth sailing for the Greens, however. Senator Brown said the party needed more donations and called for more financial support.

''We're short of funds and we'd like a lot more,'' he said, encouraging any large donors to get in contact via his post office box.

''I'd be very happy to go as a middle person.'' Former foreign minister Gareth Evans famously complained of ''relevance deprivation syndrome'' after leaving parliament but Senator Brown said he had no fears he would suffer the same plight.

''I'm a more casual, easygoing guy,'' Senator Brown said.

Senator Brown will also continue to campaign for the Greens and other environmental causes.    :)

His parting gift to all his parliamentary colleagues was a poster of James Price Point in Western Australia, in a bid to save the area from a gas plant.

He also pledged to continue supporting Greens candidates at both state and federal elections.

''I'll be campaigning with the Greens candidates to the very day they put me in a box,'' he said.

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/political-news/brown-predicts-more-greens-in-canberra-after-next-election-20120614-20cck.html#ixzz1xk6b9Iqb

I wonder what he really thinks.

It's not as if he's going to say "nah mate, those idiots will be lost without me"

I'd give him points if he was honest

"They are up sh*t creek but I couldn't give a monkeys anymore. I am going back to play Kylie and watch Muriel's Wedding with my fancy man"

The green's are rocking and rolling right into the senate.

Brown predicts that aliens have extincted themselves too. So what of his other predictions. NOT MUCH BETTER.

Who do the Australian Greens accept money from?

The thing with the greens is they have a stigma attached to them. Queenslanders will NEVER vote for them. old joh did his job on the ppl well. South Park (the cartoon) is prolly partly to blame too. greens also have some pretty nasty policies. Weird ones. Tasmania is strange.

SOB

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 3:49pm:

The green's are rocking and rolling right into the senate.

With a blistering 1 in 8 people voting for them.

Goodness it'll be like Reagan '84 won't it???

;D

rock n roll.  Pffft.  More like panpipes.

Is anyone investigating the Greens involvement in infrastructure and conflicts of interest for financial gain?>

How wonderful having the Australian Greens, holding the balance of power in the senate.  A very good insurance policy.    :)

wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:21pm:

How wonderful having the Australian Greens, holding the balance of power in the senate.  A very good insurance policy.    :)

Yet when the cost of living increases for lower income families as a result of them shutting down industries and imposing a tax across all carbon emissions - you are the first to complain??

What about the Greens organized crime links?

Vote 1 Australian Greens.  The people that care about the environment.    ;)

Primary might be up, but seats like old mate Bandts will be in trouble because I dont see the Libs giving them preferences again for a while.

Thats gonna hurt them.

Like we all know the Greens care nothing for the environment, they are all about securing resources, infrastructure and public assets for shadowy "business groups"...so who is investigating these links?  I cant remember the last time a Greens Member organized a protest or did anything like that except use words like environment and climate for propaganda.  You see its the dishonesty of the Greens and their connections that are of most concern.

Did you ever see Adam Bandt, Christine Milne or Sarah Hanson Young involved in or organizing protests?

I quite rate that Hanson Young as a decent looking bird.

I don't care for her politics much, but I don't usually vote for women anyway.

I do not rate someone whose integrity I doubt no matter what they look like.

corporate_whitey wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:42pm:

I do not rate someone whose integrity I doubt no matter what they look like.

Then your life is the poorer for it.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:38pm:

I quite rate that Hanson Young as a decent looking bird. I don't care for her politics much, but I don't usually vote for women anyway.

Did you vote for Maggy Thatcher? I thought she had a special place in your heart. You used to salivate about her enough.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:48pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:38pm: I quite rate that Hanson Young as a decent looking bird. I don't care for her politics much, but I don't usually vote for women anyway. Did you vote for Maggy Thatcher? I thought she had a special place in your heart. You used to salivate about her enough.

I was 11 years old when those idiots toppled our greatest ever PM, so no I did not vote for her.

Margaret was the exception. She was as hard as nails and wasn't your typical wishy-washy woman.

If only we had her back now, the country would be in much better shape.

Vote #1 Coalition - the people who actually know how to run an economy. The Greens only know how to destroy one.

Sarah hanson young is a 5.5 - 6 tops. 

The coalition couldn't run a chook raffle.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:49pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:48pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:38pm: I quite rate that Hanson Young as a decent looking bird. I don't care for her politics much, but I don't usually vote for women anyway. Did you vote for Maggy Thatcher? I thought she had a special place in your heart. You used to salivate about her enough. I was 11 years old when those idiots toppled our greatest ever PM, so no I did not vote for her. Margaret was the exception. She was as hard as nails and wasn't your typical wishy-washy woman. If only we had her back now, the country would be in much better shape.

You've got those rose coloured glasses on again.
If Thatcher were in power Britian's Austerity measures would be even more severe & they'd be in even deeper recession.
Why is it Conservatives think when the public is not spending Government should stop as well??
smacking stupid.

... wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:52pm:

Sarah hanson young is a 5.5 - 6 tops.

In everyday life yeah.

Taking into account the selection choice of politics you have to add 2 to the score at least.

She's a politics 8.5

The Greens are going nowhere. They only consist of rusted-on voters now. As much as I hate Labor, the Greens are about 1000 times worse.

Dsmithy70 wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:53pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:49pm: Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:48pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:38pm: I quite rate that Hanson Young as a decent looking bird. I don't care for her politics much, but I don't usually vote for women anyway. Did you vote for Maggy Thatcher? I thought she had a special place in your heart. You used to salivate about her enough. I was 11 years old when those idiots toppled our greatest ever PM, so no I did not vote for her. Margaret was the exception. She was as hard as nails and wasn't your typical wishy-washy woman. If only we had her back now, the country would be in much better shape. You've got those rose coloured glasses on again. If Thatcher were in power Britian's Austerity measures would be even more severe & they'd be in even deeper recession. Why is it Conservatives think when the public is not spending Government should stop as well?? smacking stupid.

In 1981 we went through one of the toughest times to get things right after a decade of Labour rule and waste.

However by the mid 1980s we had it right.

When you have borrowed too much, the answer is to cut back on your spending. Not borrow more.

That's what the Tories are doing and that's what Thatcher did.
My parents are very wealthy as a result of the Thatcher Revolution.
It proved to have worked. The South of England grew in wealth like never before.

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:51pm:

Vote #1 Coalition - the people who actually know how to run an economy. The Greens only know how to destroy one.

2 words JOE HOCKEY

Swan is putting sh!t all over you guys..................SWAN...............FFS

Yeah when you had Costello, but you don't now & SWAN is showing your hockonomics team up ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.
And yes Labor has struggled since Keating was there as well, although not as bad as having your ass handed to you by SWAN :D

It's all relative Smithy.

You'd argue that the US economy was not great, but I seem to have more money than I ever before?

It's all about looking after yourself and your family at the end of the day isn't it?

Why would we give a toss about how people we don't know from Adam are doing?

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:44pm:

corporate_whitey wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:42pm: I do not rate someone whose integrity I doubt no matter what they look like. Then your life is the poorer for it.

Nope, discerning character is a survival instinct, you dont allow people with poor character the opportunity to fleece you.

Its also a character thing. - show me your friends and I will know all I need to know about you - don't hang with dogs if you dont want to catch fleas.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 5:00pm:

It's all relative Smithy. You'd argue that the US economy was not great, but I seem to have more money than I ever before? It's all about looking after yourself and your family at the end of the day isn't it? Why would we give a toss about how people we don't know from Adam are doing?

I think yuo could teach many a self-absorbed narcissist a few new tricks. Would it not be wrong to say that in a war, you would choose the side that would make you the most money?

Verge wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 4:30pm:

Primary might be up, but seats like old mate Bandts will be in trouble because I dont see the Libs giving them preferences again for a while. Thats gonna hurt them.

In seats where Greens are preferencing ALP and vice-versa you are going to have voters giving votes to the LIBs because of the carbon tax

Maqqa wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 10:56pm:

Verge wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 4:30pm: Primary might be up, but seats like old mate Bandts will be in trouble because I dont see the Libs giving them preferences again for a while. Thats gonna hurt them. In seats where Greens are preferencing ALP and vice-versa you are going to have voters giving votes to the LIBs because of the carbon tax

Unless the carbon levy is irrelevant by the time of the election.

i.e Turnbull, leader of the coalition.

Green voters will vote against the carbon tax..pull the other one it plays jingle bells

adelcrow wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 11:34pm:

Green voters will vote against the carbon tax..pull the other one it plays jingle bells

no one is consideriung the Greens in the question of the repeal. No one in parliament or the community thinks that the Greens would ever act in a way that represents the majority opinion of australias. They have always voted on their own policies and their own beliefs regardless of anyone elses expresses wishes. they NEVER vote altruistically. They always vote for their own agenda. the ALP however dows have men and women of consience who have mutlitple times in the past voted against their policy beliefs for the greater good or to uphold a clear mandate.

the question is now if the ALP will honour that mandate over the CT.

No one ever expects ethical behaviour from the Greens.

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 15^th, 2012 at 10:00am:

adelcrow wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 11:34pm: Green voters will vote against the carbon tax..pull the other one it plays jingle bells no one is consideriung the Greens in the question of the repeal. No one in parliament or the community thinks that the Greens would ever act in a way that represents the majority opinion of australias. They have always voted on their own policies and their own beliefs regardless of anyone elses expresses wishes. they NEVER vote altruistically. They always vote for their own agenda. the ALP however dows have men and women of consience who have mutlitple times in the past voted against their policy beliefs for the greater good or to uphold a clear mandate. the question is now if the ALP will honour that mandate over the CT. No one ever expects ethical behaviour from the Greens.

Once again you show you have absolutely no idea of ethics or principles. Not surprising in that moral wasteland you call a mind.

Gist wrote on Jun 15^th, 2012 at 10:58am:

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 15th, 2012 at 10:00am: adelcrow wrote on Jun 14th, 2012 at 11:34pm: Green voters will vote against the carbon tax..pull the other one it plays jingle bells no one is consideriung the Greens in the question of the repeal. No one in parliament or the community thinks that the Greens would ever act in a way that represents the majority opinion of australias. They have always voted on their own policies and their own beliefs regardless of anyone elses expresses wishes. they NEVER vote altruistically. They always vote for their own agenda. the ALP however dows have men and women of consience who have mutlitple times in the past voted against their policy beliefs for the greater good or to uphold a clear mandate. the question is now if the ALP will honour that mandate over the CT. No one ever expects ethical behaviour from the Greens. Once again you show you have absolutely no idea of ethics or principles. Not surprising in that moral wasteland you call a mind.

a better poster than you would actully clearly explain about 'ethics and principles'. Care to try and articulate what you mean? If not I will just assume that you disagree with me simply because I said it, not because you actually understand it.