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Labor begins
anti-Greens scare campaign
In what seems to be a desperate attempt to
scare voters away from the Greens, the ALP is
alleging the Greens are linked to the Liberal
Party. They are painting the Greens as an arm of
the conservative right. We all know ALP
supporters don't like the conservative right, so
hopefully they won't like the Greens either if
they can be duped into thinking the Greens are
linked to the Liberal Party.
Labor's allegations are totally
unfounded.
One reason ALP supporters are moving to the
Greens is because ALP policy in areas like
health, education, public transport and climate
change is too close to Liberal conservatism and
not sufficiently progressive. The ALP has not
been able to point to any Greens policies that
it claims are bad. Perhaps Labor's fear is that
more ALP members will defect if they took a good
look at Greens
policies.
The ALP's bizarre claim that a
Greens-Liberal-Deal exists is the
foundation of a scare campaign. Like many
allegations made against the Greeens, these are
baseless claims which have no founding in fact.
The Greens have only one thing in common with
the Liberal Party - a desire to take seats away
from the ALP.
Yet the ALP has published newspaper
advertisements making the same baseless claim
that the Greens and the Liberal party have a
common agenda. It is running a campaign it calls
"Gotcha" which involves hosting over half a
dozen web domains on this theme, issuing press
releases and will soon include ads on billboards
and other media. The fight to retain Labor
voters is being cranked up in anticipation of a
Federal election in October 2007. Tens of
thousands of dollars is being spent trying to
hang on to disillusioned inner-city
supporters.
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