Hey, man, remember when it used to about the Earth, peace, love and understanding?

ON their journey to the bottom of the garden, the Greens have lost some of their pixie dust.

Friends of the Earth, haters of their own species. Greenpeace pioneer Patrick Moore on where his old ­colleagues went wrong, The Bolt ­Report, Channel 10, yesterday:

WE started with a strong humanitarian orientation to save civilisation from nuclear war. That was our early years. And, as Greenpeace went along and grew into a major organisation, we kind of lost the “peace” in the Greenpeace and all we were left with was the “Green” ... We began to characterise humans as the enemies of the Earth, and the environmental movement today continues in that strain, as if humans are evil and nature is good, and we are separate from ­nature and not really part of it. And I couldn’t stay with that kind of ­thinking because I know we are part of nature and come from nature, with evolution like all of the other species on this planet ... The main teaching of ecology is we’re all part of one whole system, rather than teaching children that we are the enemy and the Earth is what’s good.

But if you’re going to go green, do it properly. SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis on Sarah Hanson-Young’s call for local universities to dump holdings in resources companies, The Sunday Mail yesterday:

I THINK Senator Hanson-Young’s hypocrisy by having a reliance on ­fossil fuels, whether it be through aeroplane flights or using a Comcar, like all of us do, just shows that her ­argument isn’t based on fact or ­science. It’s based on ideology.

Staying with Sarah ... You mean the old asylum-seeker strategies didn’t come with casualties, too? The headline on a Hanson-Young press release yesterday:

TOW-BACKS cost lives and now Labor wants in.

Laid-back and lucky. Bill Shorten outside the Canberra Hyatt after ­addressing the Australian Christian Lobby conference, Saturday:

IN Australia we’re very lucky to be tolerant and to be diverse.

But there’s tolerance — and tolerance. Media release from LGBTI ­advocates All Out issued ahead of Shorten’s speech:

AN outcry from All Out — the global movement for love and equality — is targeting Opposition Leader Bill Shorten for accepting an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Australian Christian Lobby’s annual conference today. This week, 8445 All Out members in Australia emailed Mr Shorten to request that he reconsider his commitment to speak at the ACL conference ... In addition to the ... emails ... opposition to the conference included hundreds leaving 1-star ­ratings on the Hyatt’s Facebook page.

Don’t overheat the engine, crack the diff or do burnouts in that quiet cul- de-sac. NSW Labor leader John ­Robertson looks to the future after his party’s two by-election wins, ­Saturday night:

OUR job now is to keep our foot on that accelerator and keep working just as hard from now until March to make sure we give these Liberals the message that they deserve.

And don’t open the champagne too early. Labor primary vote in one of the seats, Charleston, at the close of counting on Saturday:

36.9 per cent.

Because ... The number of seats Labor will now hold in the NSW state parliament:

23

The number of seats needed to form government in NSW:

47

Others might need to hold their horses, too. Linda Silmalis and Ehssan Veiszadeh report on the ­results in yesterday’s The Sunday Telegraph:

DESPITE a high-profile campaign which was well-funded by Clive Palmer, the two independents backed by the Palmer United Party polled only 3.2 per cent in Newcastle and 6.8 per cent in Charlestown.