Maqqa wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 2:09pm:

Comprehension not your strong point is it? 

The Greens won't have the bop, so it doesn't matter what they want/think, they will be rendered completely irrelevant. With any luck it will be Xenophon and/or Madigan (if the Coalition doesn't in our own right).

matty wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 2:23pm:




Depends if Australia required moderation from Abbott's extreme agenda.
Greens in the Senate and in the lower house seats like Batman and Melbourne.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 9:36am:


You back to being employed in Australia??

If not, FWA doesn't apply to any young ladies working in your section.

BTW....A young lady doesn't have to have a boyfriend to get pregnant, any willing potent male will suffice.

Didn't they teach you anything at that very expensive school????

andrei....

During the pilot's strike, did your old man front up to management all by himself, or did his union represent him??

Yes folks, andrei's old man was a striker....

longweekend58 wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 1:10pm:


Got something to support that claim??

Lobo wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 3:13pm:


He was there at the table with 10 of his senior colleagues fronting up.

He said Hawke's man refused to even listen to their case and actually started off when they entered the room by accusing them of thinking they were better than everyone else and that they already earn 5 times the average worker.

There's a conciliatory tone.

Hawke - friend of the worker eh?

skippy. wrote on Jun 8^th, 2013 at 3:13pm:



Greens require an 8% swing on primary and we are in the mix.


Greens sets sights on Batman

It's meant to be the safest Labor seat in the nation.


But as the party bickers over preselection for the Melbourne electorate, the Greens have declared "Batman's next" and pronounced themselves a genuine chance to snatch a surprise outright victory.

In her fourth time running as the Greens' candidate for Batman, Alex Bhathal said she has been flooded with community donations.

"I've had aged pensioners donating, people in public housing giving me five dollars, it's just extraordinary people's belief in the Greens and what we stand for," Ms Bhathal said.

Former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown is so confident about the party's prospects he doesn't believe the Greens will have to negotiate a preference deal with either of the two major parties.

Instead he said the battle for Batman will be a two-horse race between the Greens and a Labor party he said no longer represented the progressive views of the electorate.

In the last federal election Ms Bhathal, a Preston social worker, achieved a swing of 6.3 per cent, pinching most of those votes off retiring former Labor frontbencher Martin Ferguson. She’ll need an even bigger swing, of about 8 per cent, if she is to turf out Labor in September.

But on Ms Bhathal's past form, which has seen the Green's primary vote rise by almost 20 per cent within a decade, Bob Brown challenged the perception Batman was in fact as "safe" as it has been touted.

"It's been seen as the safest because the Liberal vote is so small. The Greens vote is growing rapidly and the bean counters tend to look at the two big parties and don’t see the Greens coming," he said.

"It's happened in Cunningham, we won the first seat in the lower house and it's happened in Melbourne.

"Batman is next."

http://www.parramattasun.com.au/story/1557364/greens-sets-sights-on-batman/?cs=1...