The Greens are emerging as a real alternative political party in Australia, instead of two major parties we now have three. It was the Greens who decided to have a debate about the Afghanistan war, they say the majority of Australians are against the war and I believe it. We want to be consulted before our government jumps in and commits our country to fight people we have no issue with, just because America thinks it's a good idea at the time. The same goes for euthanasia, both parties are afraid to touch the subject but the Greens want it put on the table. Then there's the banks who have been ripping us off for years and announcing bigger and bigger profits - the Greens want to put the hard word on them, something Labor and the Coalaition refuse to do. So you can't blame people for thinking that this party is a better alternative.
But there are Green policies I don't agree with, one being to let all asylum seekers in, give them immediate visas and sign them up for Centrelink benefits. So I will never vote for them.
In today's Herald Nielson poll, Labor's primary vote is down a considerable 4 percentage points, from 38 to 34 percent. It means Labor has lost the votes of about half a million people in two months since the election. Of those, half appear to have gone to the Greens. If it persists, it will destroy Labor permanently as a party able to govern in its own right and force it into permanent dependency - or perhaps a coalition - with the Greens.
I get the feeling Labor is struggling to survive and Tony Abbott has said the Coalition must be ready to govern at short notice. Will Labor merge with the Greens and form a Coalition? Interesting times in Canberra.
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