I’ve seen this one. Everything ends well.
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After all the bullshit crocodile tears the ALP and LEAN spilled about being ever cruelly forced against their will to approve the northwest shelf gas field abomination because the law wouldn’t allow it to be reviewed or rejected on climate grounds…
That’s the ALP on climate for you. Kill their parents, ask clemency from the judge on the grounds of being an orphan.
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This was tried and failed in Australia a decade ago.
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A big fat grogan delivered by a Grogan
And a Karen to boot
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I understand this to be the Amendment in question
I have no idea what it is about, but I will ask some questions of those who will.
Edit
I read today’s Hansard for the Senate and this matter was debated today.
Interesting read, that I still do not understand, but I will enquire further
IT IS WORTH READING
I agree with all of this except (as always lol). I would add that the Greens, here in Aus at least, let in a few nutters and have no balance. The get involved in things they know zip about and are not elected for, and neglect the things they should be doing. People often see the Labor party has having a more effective and balanced environmetal policy. The Tassie Green leader in her victory speech started the speech with their views on the Palestine conflict. Not what they were elected for. An increasingly irrelevant party.
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Social warriors love social warrioring!!
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I find the Greens have some really interesting policies, but they haven’t been constructive enough in getting legislation passed and as such don’t have a reputation of having an impact.
I don’t mind Palestine being brought up. It’s one of the most horrible man made catastrophes in the world right now.
Hooo boy, that’s quite a stretch.
ALP environmental policy is functionally indistinguishable from coalition environment policy.
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You really believe that ? Not perfect but comparing Labor policy to Liberal is a joke. Net zero ?? Nuclear power ?? List of differences is huge.
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AS the first thing in your victory speech for a party that runs on a green agenda?
A bit better than the Libs I think.The Greens though have pretty much zero power resulting in nothing being done.
Yes, I do really believe it.
The only difference is that the ALP pretends it gives a ■■■■, while the coalition is happy to virtue signal to the cookers.
The ALP literally kept the coalition safeguard mechanism (that is designed to not work) when they got elected. ALP climate policy is entirely literally Coalition climate policy! The ALP refused to legislate a climate trigger, just like the coalition.
In climate, only results count, and the ALP have made it clear that results are secondary to optics. Net zero commitment is all very fine, but it means nothing unless you back up your target with means to reach that target. The ALPs alleged policy to reach net zero is built on carbon credits (which are a fraud), carbon capture and storage (which doesn’t work), wilful and deliberate undercounting of emissions from stuff like gas extraction (which is dishonest), and a refusal to admit that fossil fuel exports accelerate the problem (which is deceptive).
And that’s just talking about climate. It’s also bipartisan policy to fail to rein in land over clearing, and destroy the Tassie coast with salmon farms, and leave the Endangered Species Act in place when everyone’s known for decades it’s not fit fur purpose. Oh, and the ALP just backflipped on the promised Great Forest National Park too.
The only two areas of environmental policy that I can give the alp a real and genuine advantage over the coalition is a) in their willingness to cull Alpine brumbies rather than letting the high country become a horseshit-strewn wasteland for Man From Snowy River cosplayers, and b) the much belated cessation of native forest logging in vic, which let’s be honest, only happened because it’s a money-losing organised crime ring that’d been propped up by taxpayers money for decades and in the wake of lockdowns and Vic budget problems, just got too expensive.
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Please provide more information about this for those of us outside Victoria. It sounds like good news but is there a catch?
Climate change will kill people, as will starvation in Gaza. Both are important issues, one needs to be resolved immediately to prevent mass deaths.
I’m ok with Gaza getting urgent discussion for that reason alone.
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I agree they are both important. My point is it is a state Greens party, not running on the Gaza issue yet that is what they are talking about. I think a party should concentrate on the platform they were elected for and potentially can influence.
From the Greens policy page:
I get it’s not your preference, but don’t misrepresent what their broad policy platform is.
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Well I did not hear them talk about it pre election, I watch a lot but maybe I did miss it. Good to see they are prioritizing green issues.