Is it the Climate Front of Judea or the Judean Climate Front?
Middle-class doctors too mainstream for Left Renewal radicals.
TheGuardian Australia website reports on the rise of the Left Renewal faction within the Greens, yesterday:
Two Greens parliamentarians have publicly defied their federal leader, Richard Di Natale, on the existence of factions and whether the Left Renewal faction, which aims to replace capitalism, has a place in the party.
NSW legislator David Shoebridge and federal senator Lee Rhiannon, Guardian Australia, yesterday:
Left Renewal members believe that capitalism is a major problem and express a belief in socialism and collective enterprise … In its blanket opposition to capitalism and denunciation of state power, Left Renewal goes much further than most Greens members are comfortable with.
Speaking of socialism, a report from the socialist-alliance.org website, February 2012:
Greens MLC David Shoebridge’s visit to Socialist Alliance’s 8th National Conference is hailed with almost Messianic fervour. The rush towards genuflection before the Greens leaves little room for those SA members who appear perplexed about this apparent turn.
Splitters! Gerard Henderson, The Australian, December 14, 2013:
Senator Lee Rhiannon attended the International Lenin School as Lee O’Gorman, the daughter of Communist Party of Australia leading functionaries — and lifelong Stalinists — WJ (Bill) Brown and Freda Brown. The Browns split with the CPA in the early 1970s in opposition to the CPA’s criticism of the Soviet Union’s 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia …
Back to the Guardian Aus–tralia … just who could they be referring to? Shoebridge and Rhiannon continue, yesterday:
From forest defenders to middle-class doctors and student activists, the Greens party is a broad and accepting social movement that has always celebrated its diversity.
Middle-class doctors don’t stay middle class by throwing their hard-earned money away. The Australian, May 20 last year:
Greens leader Richard Di Natale was last night embroiled in a spat over property interests and payment of a live-in nanny, after it emerged he failed to properly declare a farm and paid an au pair as little as $6 an hour.
Doth the doctor protest too much? The Australian, December 23 last year:
“(Richard Di Natale) was happy to make weekly visits to Grayndler during the election campaign and support a candidate who had these sorts of views,” (Anthony) Albanese told The Australian … Mr Albanese, Labor’s infrastructure and transport spokesman, was challenged earlier this year by Jim Casey … one of several party figures to have joined the Left Renewal Facebook page, alongside staffers and others aligned with federal senator Lee Rhiannon.
We thought only right-wingers wanted to return to the 1950s. Shoebridge and Rhiannon, yesterday:
Let’s remember how in the 1950s Australia led the world with the publicly owned Snowy Hydro scheme for renewable energy.
Of course, the Greens would never let such a thing be built today. The Greens’ policy website, yesterday:
The Australian Greens want … exclusion from the RET (renewable energy target) of new large-scale hydro-electric power stations and all electricity from burning native forests.
In any case, duly noted. Shoebridge and Rhiannon, yesterday:
Just to be clear, neither of us are members of Left Renewal.