Hope you all have fat wallets.God help us if we dont have another election soon,every p ant egotist out there wants his /her day in the sun and we will all pay for it.
Did all the Green voters know what they were voting for ? Compensation, is everything about money,will it make anything better ? -------------------------------------------------
The Greens have promised to use their new-found power to vigorously pursue their policy agenda, including compensation for the stolen generation, legalisation of gay marriage and changing the law to require Parliament to approve an Australian declaration of war.
The Greens look set to hold the balance of power in the Upper House with nine senators, while Adam Bandt will represent the party in the Lower House in the seat of Melbourne.
Rachel Siewert, who is set to become the first returned WA Greens senator after Saturday's poll, said the party had been clear about its policy agenda and planned to pursue it.
She said the party would seek to reform the operation of the Senate to give more time to private members' Bills and said the election of Mr Bandt offered a new opportunity to introduce Bills into the Lower House.
She said Greens senators had a number of private members' Bills "very dear to our hearts" that would be introduced into Parliament in this term.
They included compensation and reparations for the Stolen Generation, abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission, banning trans fats, legalising gay marriage, "safe climate" laws and a change that would require an act of war to be voted on by the Parliament, rather than executive government.
"We are very clear about our policies and we are not going to back away from those," Senator Siewert said yesterday. "But we've also learned how to negotiate."
She said the Greens were prepared to deal with a minority government of either stripe and she believed the party could deliver responsible, stable Government.
"It is going to be a very interesting way of governing the country, but all five (incumbent Greens senators) have all had experience sharing the balance of power and have proved we can deliver," she said.
The mining tax has been blamed for Labor's poor showing in WA but the Greens supported a bigger mining tax than Julia Gillard.
Asked to explain the apparent contradiction, Senator Siewert said the Greens had been able to tie their support of a bigger tax to a community dividend.
"People were focusing on us because we were talking positively, not negatively, and I think people were turned off by the negativity from the major parties," she said.
"Labor wanted a tax but they didn't have a vision for what they wanted to do with it. It was, 'well we'll build a bit more infrastructure for the mining industry', but they didn't provide a vision for the people."
