ALP, Greens to end Tas deal


The Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party is set to pull the plug a four-year power-sharing alliance with the Greens, signalling the end of a series of similar arrangements with the progressive party across the nation, The Australian reports.

According to the newspaper, the party is also considering making a public vow to not to repeat the arrangement - even in a future hung parliament - as it looks to rebuild its traditional base.

The news comes almost a year after the collapse of the formal alliance former Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured with the Greens, then led by Bob Brown, following the hung parliament in 2010 over a raft of policy differences, namely asylum seekers and the mining tax.

The Australian reports the move is yet to be endorsed by the state caucus, but there is said to be strong support across the party's rank and file members, trade unions and the Tasmanian leadership group.


http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/1/9/politics/alp-greens-end-tas-de...


Think it's a good move for both Greens and Labor.


Labor can carbon copy the conservatives while the Greens can continue to champion Leftwing Progressive Ideology.

Greens are now the alternative progressive voice to lib/lab conservatism in Australia.

Greens support pension security for the elderly, returned solders, disabled ... and other welfare payments to continue to be paid. Labor's reckless abandon of people who once they supported, just to be the new Mr No of the opposition nearly stopped all welfare payments.

I can understand why you of all people support Labor in Mr Abbott's old position of wrecker of the Australian economy by opposing anything and everything from opposition. Labor has a long track record of me tooing Libs in bad areas i.e refugee persecution.

Greens coped with Labor's reckless abandon to common sense and honesty in the previous term and Greened up some of Labor's legislation. Greens will apply the same logic by coping with the coalition's reckless abandon of economic logic and will push their legislation to a more progressive mindset.


As for voting against Labor's dirty ETS, so you support carbon pricing to be locked in at $1 a tonne and billions of tax dollars to fix it. Sorry, Greens are not that gullible to support tricky legislation from Labor.


This term is an opportunity for Greens to show that they can work with either Labor or Liberals to improve their legislation and so in future elections voters of both old parties can put Greens second in their preferences so to keep the Old parties more centre than far right.

progressiveslol wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 6:35am:



And you are a fool.

____ wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 6:14am:



thats the greens problem.
they couldnt budget a primary school tuck shop.
labor would be insane to throw their lot in with these fiscal lunatics .
the greens will always attract about 8 % of the vote.
thats about the number of australians who cant do grade 1 maths

cods wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 7:31am:


Yep, they're quite happy to sit on the sidelines with no responsibility and tell everyone else how it's supposed to be done. Amateurs.

cods wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 7:31am:


Greens do not sit on the fence.
Which party is seen as the strongest on environment, most compassionate towards those in difficulty and most vocal in support for the backbone of the economy, the low income workers … it's the Greens.

Just because Greens are savvy on how to push their progressive leftwing agenda, unlike you, I see this as a great attribute.

____ wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 7:44am:


We saw what happens when you imbeciles get a whiff of running a government in Tasmania and in Canberra over the past six years. It's an unmitigated disaster. Look what Bob Brown's insistence on a carbon tax in return for his support did to Labor - they suffered their worst ever electoral defeat. You fools may think you know everything about the environment (the reality is far different), but you know nothing about politics or pretty much anything else.

St George of the Garden wrote on Jan 10^th, 2014 at 7:53am:


Hold on a moment. The Coalition voted against the Malaysian Non-Solution because it would expose illegal immigrants to brutal living conditions in Malaysian detention centres where detainees can only dream of watching TV or having access to first-rate medical care or their children going to classes or catching up on the latest news in the internet. Most spend their days crammed into overcrowded rooms with poor sanitation and fear of being hit with the rattan cane by officials. You idiots complain about living conditions on Nauru. Nauru and Christmas Island are the Marriott compared to Malaysia's detention centres!