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Does Bob Brown have any authority on morality?
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Monday, 29 November 2010
Article by Cameron Spink

 

Victoria’s state election on Saturday has stemmed a slide to the left and the socially engineering Greens party. While it is not a decisive win for a more conservative nation, it does spell a time where a “progressive” parliament will be subdued.

 

Despite the voter backlash that saw the Greens increase their vote by the smallest of margins since the last Victorian election their leader, Bob Brown, is putting on a brave face. He insists that Melbourne is becoming more progressive regardless of the overwhelming swing to the Ted Baillieu run Coalition. In fact, at some stage we are informed that we should expect the Greens to win seats outright without having to rely on either of the large party’s preferences.

 

Perhaps the most amusing excuse of Brown’s press statement was his attack on the Victorian Coalition. "If it is a hung parliament, moral authority will be diminished because the Liberals didn't preference the Greens," Brown claimed. So it is the Baillieu government that has acted with moral reprehensibility? Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of the Liberal leader but this really is the pot calling the kettle black. Bob Brown is living in a sinful lifestyle; he is the leader of a party that promotes population control, social engineering, environmental supremacy and he is schooling someone else on “moral authority”? Greens policy includes pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and the legalisation of same-sex marriage and injection rooms. They are the last party who can say anything about morality.

 

Leaving the Greens platforms aside for the moment it should be said that the Liberals had no moral persuasion to preference the Greens. In fact, it would be illogical for them to do so. The Greens have shown no love for the Coalition and revealed their colours in the federal election (if indeed anyone doubted). If the Liberals had given preference to the Greens they would have risked off-siding the conservative supporters and those who recognise the Greens party for what it is.

 

Furthermore, the Liberals would have received no benefit from giving preference to the Greens. On the spectrum the Greens and Labor sit on the left side, they never would have supported a Liberal minority and had one electorate been different and the Greens given the determinative power Baillieu would no doubt be rueing the preferences the Greens received from his party. In this situation Bob Brown has made the Liberal party out to be the bad guy, but this is far from the truth. The Liberal party gave no real indication that they were going to give the Greens preferences at any stage and, had the boot been on the other foot, the Greens would not have hesitated in exercising its inner-city influence to drag Victoria back to the left and a Brumby government.

 

Through his comments Bob Brown provides us with the danger of hearing what the dealer has said while ignoring the cards dealt before us. He may fool some with his perceived moral high ground but the 2010 Victorian election is a beacon of light to a less “progressive” future. With this hope we can work towards real morality.

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