It seems that Julia Gillard has finally clued in to what most people in Australia already knew. That is, that the Greens party represent an extremist position in politics and do not reflect Australia values. She may have come to this epiphany too late, however, as her government is now dependent on the Greens to maintain power in the lower house, and soon to be, the upper house. Coming from someone who has been working closely with the Greens this is damning statement.

Brown to take Gillard to task over 'values' attack
The Age, 2nd April 2011

"Bob Brown has vowed to raise personally with Julia Gillard her swingeing attack on the Greens, when she alleged they did not share the values of ''everyday Australians''.

The Greens leader lashed out at Ms Gillard yesterday, saying her comments were ''an unfortunate and unwarranted and gratuitous insult''.

''It's not becoming of a prime minister to be talking in those ways about millions of other Australians … for some reason, the Prime Minister has turned her fire on the very people who have supported her in government,'' he said.
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''I'll talk to her about that. She's wrong.'' Ms Gillard and Senator Brown have fortnightly meetings when Parliament is not sitting.

Senator Brown warned Ms Gillard's attacks would ''come back to bite her''. But he said the Greens would continue working to ''give Australians the best dividend they can get from a minority government that is full of promise''.

In her second attack on the Greens in weeks, the PM went much further than before, saying on Thursday it was ''a party of protest with no tradition of striking the balance required to deliver major reform''.

''The Greens wrongly reject the moral imperative to a strong economy,'' she said in her Gough Whitlam Oration. Although they had ''some worthy ideas'' and good intentions, they failed to understand that ''the people Labor strives to represent need work''...."

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