Greens alliance a poison hug for Labour - says critic
A leading Australian commentator warns a greens-labour alliance which has been fatal to Australia's centre-left government might also play out here.
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An alliance with the Greens could be fatal for the already-struggling Labour Party, a leading Australian commentator warns.
The Australian’s chief opinion editor Nick Cater, who visited New Zealand this week to promote his book The Lucky Culture, warns an alliance with the Greens has been disastrous for Australia’s Labor Party, as socially-conservative middle and working class voters have abandoned their traditional support.
Of the Greens, he says: “They are absolutists and are rigid about man’s role in the environment and on earning a living.”
Mr Cater has backing from the left in a new book, Hearts and Minds, published by new federal treasurer Chris Bowen, which calls for Labor to re-assert its mainstream policies and concentrate on the economy and jobs.
Read the full story in tomorrow’s print edition of The National Business Review.
Nevil Gibson
Thu, 18 Jul 2013
Thu, 18 Jul 2013
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Greens alliance a poison hug for Labour - says critic
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