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October 6, 2004

What’s that Greens?

As previously indicated I go to great efforts to ensure that I’m a well informed member of the voting public. For that purpose, or for a chuckle, I decided to have a look at the Greens Policy Snapshot book (available from the ‘Policies’ section of the greens website).

[Sure a vote for The Greens amounts to nothing (except a vote for Labor?) but at least their workers don’t suggest burning Lesbians at the stake like a worker from some other party has.]

Anyway, here’s a rundown of my (innacurate) interpretation and commentary on the Greens’ policy snapshot:

• They support some nonsense about restricting water usage which would no doubt stop me from having five twenty-minute showers each day… that’s stupid;

• The Greens don’t want us to export woodchips and want landclearing to stop. This is stupid — The Australian economy relies heavily on woodchipping and farming. If we don’t clear land and sell wood chips we won’t have as much funding available for the military;

• They want to abolish HECS. This is stupid — people who don’t want to pay for university should do something useful like join the army;

• They oppose pre-emptive strikes. This is stupid — what will all the new army recruits do with their time? training only stays interesting for so long;

• They oppose nuclear power and want to end uranium mining in Australia. This is stupid — how will we produce superhuman mutant soldiers to send on pre-emptive strikes without nuclear waste?

• They want to open Australia’s borders to pretty much everyone. This is ok, provided they all join the army;

• They want to increase funding to the ABC and SBS. This is ok, provided they do something useful with the money like covering the war and not useless things like netball and soccer.

So, there you go, there are some good points and some bad points. Still, with the Natural Law party gone I think The Greens might just be the next best thing.