Brisbane could be harder for drivers but easier for cyclists and pedestrians under a sweeping proposal by the Greens to "de-prioritise" cars in favour of people ahead of the local election in March.
LNP against common sense progress proposed by the Greens. I think I’ve heard this one before.
The Greens are the voice of reason, and the LNP are the unhinged ones. Has it always been this way?
Not really. Though, it’s also pretty likely that my own politics has evolved over the decades. In the 80’s the Greens were seen as a slightly less militant environmental organisation as Greenpeace. Interested only in environmental issues, and nothing else. It made them pretty unelectable - party because the environment was nowhere as big an issue as it is today, but mostly because they had no policies on anything else (like defense, economy etc).
Looking back though, I’m not even sure that was true - it may have just been the perception. There were no websites to look up policies on, the only way to really get across their policies was to get onto their mailing list (snail mail).
The Greens started to become a viable party sometime around the time of Mark Latham being Labor leader. Mr Howard was busy selling off Telstra, holding a referrendum on the Monarchy and about to introduce GST. And the Labor leader was an unhinged madman.
Not saying your point is incorrect, but just wanted to copy-paste for those like me who read your post and think those events don’t quite line up. Also, I’d just point out that Howard did win an election in Nov 2001, after the referendum and GST, before Latham. Again, this doesn’t directly contradict your point, just noting that there wasn’t ever really a GST vs Latham election, as I’d think the question had sort of been decided. But I don’t actually know whether Latham campaigned on it or not, off the top of my head, so I could be totally wrong there.
They were acting then to prevent the issues that we are currently facing, and people regarded them as a fringe group. Now we’ve just had the hottest year on record and BCC is acting as if building more roads is the answer, and that adding pedestrian crosswalks is “radical”.
Not really. Though, it’s also pretty likely that my own politics has evolved over the decades. In the 80’s the Greens were seen as a slightly less militant environmental organisation as Greenpeace. Interested only in environmental issues, and nothing else. It made them pretty unelectable - party because the environment was nowhere as big an issue as it is today, but mostly because they had no policies on anything else (like defense, economy etc).
Looking back though, I’m not even sure that was true - it may have just been the perception. There were no websites to look up policies on, the only way to really get across their policies was to get onto their mailing list (snail mail).
The Greens started to become a viable party sometime around the time of Mark Latham being Labor leader. Mr Howard was busy selling off Telstra, holding a referrendum on the Monarchy and about to introduce GST. And the Labor leader was an unhinged madman.
Republic Referendum was Nov 1999
GST came into effect Jul 2000
Latham was opposition leader Dec 2003 - Jan 2005
Not saying your point is incorrect, but just wanted to copy-paste for those like me who read your post and think those events don’t quite line up. Also, I’d just point out that Howard did win an election in Nov 2001, after the referendum and GST, before Latham. Again, this doesn’t directly contradict your point, just noting that there wasn’t ever really a GST vs Latham election, as I’d think the question had sort of been decided. But I don’t actually know whether Latham campaigned on it or not, off the top of my head, so I could be totally wrong there.
I wonder if the Murdoch media called the Republic referendum a waste of money as well
They were acting then to prevent the issues that we are currently facing, and people regarded them as a fringe group. Now we’ve just had the hottest year on record and BCC is acting as if building more roads is the answer, and that adding pedestrian crosswalks is “radical”.
" Its the end of the world as we know it " /song