Bob Brown has resigned as Greens leader and will leave the Senate in June.
Update: Christine Milne now leader.
Update II: Bob Brown just said that Australia was the wealthiest per capita country on the face of the Earth. Not sure that is correct – certainly not per capita income.
Update III: Brown – ‘Greens on the way to be a future government’.
Update IV: Brown – ‘None of us are individuals’.
Update V: Adam Bandt is deputy leader.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1P7gdtAeY
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 11:48 am
Don’t cheer for too long, their next candidate from the Greek isle of Tasmania could make repugnant Rhiannon look like Hayek.
I’m not at all optimistic about the petulant fuckhead’s resignation because it could mean he’s losing control of the party to the Leninist and Stalinst wings and wants out. In some ways Brown was actually the moderate I reckon.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 11:49 am
Did he finally get the phone call from the Aliens in response to the Earthian letter?
Token
13 Apr 12 at 11:50 am
Perhaps the aliens finally telephoned Bob.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 11:50 am
Shocked me!! I was sure he’d stick it out at least until the election. Was it the “Earthian” speech?
How long will Tubbsie last before she is airbrushed from history by the Stalinist faction?
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 11:51 am
Snap, Token.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 11:51 am
Here’s Tubbsie Milne telling the public they are living in the Age of Stupid.
It doesn’t apply to her though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxkOFrNrTA
JC
13 Apr 12 at 11:54 am
JC, I’m optimistic that the petulant fuckhead has lost out to the Stalinists. If so it should mean no more Greens quite soon.
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 11:54 am
Why Bill? The former KGB operative was elected to the senate.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 11:56 am
Good riddance
Mike of Marion
13 Apr 12 at 11:56 am
Great, can’t wait to be lectured by not one but two rotund school marms as if im a three year old.
Nic
13 Apr 12 at 11:57 am
Hoping Hanson-Young has another tilt at the top job, then Rhiannon fragments them even further.
Supplice
13 Apr 12 at 11:58 am
He may be ill with something, he’s elderly.
candy
13 Apr 12 at 11:58 am
Ms Hanson-Young would bring in a whole batch of fresh young voters their main supporters, they would do well with her rather than Ms Milne.
candy
13 Apr 12 at 12:00 pm
She was only elected on a “flag of convenience” basis. BB has long been their only presentable asset, and a very effective parliamentary performer.
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 12:00 pm
Excellent. May they speak out loud and often,
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:00 pm
Brown on Sky now.
Sinclair Davidson
13 Apr 12 at 12:01 pm
Did Brown just say “death of talent” in the party? Sure sounded like it.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:03 pm
Could be, Candy. He’s quite obviously suffered early onset dementia so the illness could be taking a turn for the worse as we saw with his ET speech.
mmeehh a choice between dumb and dumber.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:04 pm
Diddums Bob Brown, Diddums.
Carpe Jugulum
13 Apr 12 at 12:07 pm
Hanson-Young? A smug cheshire cat.
Nic
13 Apr 12 at 12:08 pm
Doesn’t sound like it given his listing of what he will be involved with next.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:08 pm
He’s chickening out. The game is up for the Greens. He wants to finish on top, so to speak.
I expect Windsor will announce his retirement soon too.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 12:10 pm
Morticia Addams & cousin Its love child
Carpe Jugulum
13 Apr 12 at 12:12 pm
Focus on bringing the Tasmanian economy to its knees finally. He clearly hasn’t done enough to really screw it good and proper.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:12 pm
His resignation comes as a great shock. He’ll be an enormous loss, not only to the Greens but to all of Australia. Hope he’s not seriously ill as some commenters have speculated.
hammygar
13 Apr 12 at 12:13 pm
Nah, he will be devoting time to become the first global president.
Biota
13 Apr 12 at 12:13 pm
You ought to go and cry over at LP, hammy,…oh wait…
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:15 pm
Ahahahaha.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 12:15 pm
Keep up the predictions of the Greens’ impending doom. Maybe you’ll look back at this thread some day and notice where you put the anchor down in time and let the 21st century drift away.
Sancho
13 Apr 12 at 12:16 pm
This is Abbott’s fault, of course.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:18 pm
He must’ve collapsed under the weight of all that media scrutiny.
Toxic
13 Apr 12 at 12:19 pm
Greatly admired as a decent guy all round despite the politics
Hope hes ok and not ill as suggested
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 12:20 pm
Og course he’ll be a huge loss. Milne isn’t dumb enough to talk about Earthians phoning up.
Sinclair Davidson
13 Apr 12 at 12:20 pm
Has something of moment happened?
dover_beach
13 Apr 12 at 12:20 pm
I’d have preferred Lee Rhiannon to take over. She doesn’t beat about the bush pretending to care for the environment like the others, she gets to the real agenda of militant communism.
papachango
13 Apr 12 at 12:21 pm
Bob Brownshirt, gone. WHo will the lefty media have to suck up to now?
Rococo Liberal
13 Apr 12 at 12:21 pm
Bob Brown joins the rest of Tasmania on Commonwealth welfare.
H B Bear
13 Apr 12 at 12:22 pm
Hammy, it’s an enormous loss to all occupants of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 12:22 pm
Champagne Comedy.
Carpe Jugulum
13 Apr 12 at 12:22 pm
Yep, Milne currently blaming Abbott, in a very screechy voice.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:22 pm
Not to mention his fondness for Uranus.
Nic
13 Apr 12 at 12:24 pm
What did Hunter S. Thompson call Hubert Humphrey? “A treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current”? Sounds about right for this Australian vermin. P*** off, Bob.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 12:25 pm
Yep, Abbott’s negativity has now destroyed one opposition leader and two prime ministers. Surviving prime minister is in critical condition, not expected to survive.
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 12:27 pm
LOL.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 12:27 pm
-CL.
My first thoughts on the reason for Bob’s “retirement”. He has seen the writing on the wall (or received prior information from the aliens) and is running for cover before the imminent electoral train smash.
Pedro the Ignorant
13 Apr 12 at 12:27 pm
Ms Hanson-Young would have got the media and public better because of her nice looks and she’s a mother too, guess she be a little inexperienced,but
candy
13 Apr 12 at 12:27 pm
Brown: “None of us are individuals”, spoken like the true leader of the Borg.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:27 pm
Good point, Bill.
Abbott has wiped out Rudd, Gillard and now Brown.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 12:28 pm
Lee Rhiannon just hit buy now on an icepick from EBay.
lotocoti
13 Apr 12 at 12:29 pm
candy.
Finished your post for you.
Pedro the Ignorant
13 Apr 12 at 12:29 pm
No Bob, it not true. We would be if you and your cult simply fucked off out here and never came back.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:32 pm
Any psephologists out there know the mechanics of what happens next? Can Greens nominate a replacement like the major parties to sit until next year’s half-Senate election (When Brown would have been facing re-election with Hanson-Young and Ludlum)?
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 12:32 pm
Bob’s greatest legacy is the current state of Tasmania.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 12:32 pm
Nobody wants a split watermelon.
H B Bear
13 Apr 12 at 12:33 pm
According to the Credit Suisse 2011 wealth report at https://infocus.credit-suisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/323525/2011_global_wealth_report.pdf
“In 2011, average wealth in Australia, at
USD 397,000, was second highest in the world – after
Switzerland and ahead of Norway. More surprisingly, perhaps, its median wealth of USD 222,000 is the highest in the world.”
Peter Whiteford
13 Apr 12 at 12:35 pm
Dr Natale displays a wide grin indeed during the news conference
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 12:35 pm
Wait – is he leaving the senate right now, today? Or is this down the track?
I’m happy he will no longer be ranting.
Sure, his bizarre rants should have turned off voters, but the media treated him like a loveable crazy uncle.
Wait til Milne does some screeching at the rest of us. The voters should start to leave in inreasing frequency.
I do hope they come up with some more marxism though. That would be good for a laugh.
Not many parties survive the difficult second leader period. I expect the Greens to be the same.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 12:35 pm
Tough but fair Tom. Best comment of the day so far.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:35 pm
I want the greens to find their next leader by casting runes and or a sign from gaia.
Nic
13 Apr 12 at 12:39 pm
Whiteford:
I know that report. Let me ask you, do you think very high, in fact intolerably high real estate prices combined with the exchange rate have anything to with it? ummmmm
You fancy yourself as an anal(syst) so do a little digging. Normalize our real estate values down to say the OECD average and then see how it looks then. In view of the fact that we’ve been in a commodity boom of biblical proportions, i wouldn’t be too pleased with our result.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:40 pm
Is anyone else disturbed that the first the public (and Green voters) hear about all of this is at a press conference after the election of the new leader?
Not big on transparacy, are they?
Doesn’t say much for the Canberra press gallery either …
Matt
13 Apr 12 at 12:42 pm
Just the first of the “Labor” retirements to be announced soon.
This is just Brown seeing his future post 2013 as a impotent senate member after he potentially loses balance of power status on pure numbers but will lose all influence with a demoralised Labor not able to stop Abbotts unwinding of the Carbon Tax and assorted rorts. He knows there is 6 years of conservative rule ahead of Australia at a minimum.
He knows the Greens gig is up and is exiting before his “legacy” is trashed.
For once we can blame Abbott for something. Tony should be proud of his work here.
The Greens will now lose their last vestige of environmentalism cover and be seen as the far left statist ideologues they truly are.
They will rip themselves apart quite quickly from here. It will be fascinating and enjoyable viewing.
Mark
13 Apr 12 at 12:43 pm
ludlam as deputy me thinks
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 12:44 pm
As Gab says, his “legacy” is the economic condition of Tasmania.
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 12:46 pm
Thank God he’s finally going! And what did he do for Australians? Nothing postive, everything negative and from next month we will all be paying exhaustive and ongoing power prices based on a global lie that he pushed!
Dave
13 Apr 12 at 12:47 pm
Ludlam isn’t as big a loon as the rest of the loon bucket. I tend to think that if the other aslyum dwellers weren’t around he’d be almost tolerable.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 12:51 pm
This is going to destroy their “green credentials” and no doubt their ability to gain funding, methinks crazy Bob is being spiteful to those he no longer likes in his party. Now he’s free to point out their environmental lapses with impunty.
Simon
13 Apr 12 at 12:55 pm
From the Oz: “Senator Brown will leave the Senate in June. He said the party would now seek a successor to fill his Senate seat.”
Still not 100% clear to me what that means, but it sounds like Greens will nominate a replacement to sit until the 2013 half-Senate poll … when the newbie, Hanson-Young and Ludlum will all be tipped out of the Senate, leaving just six Greens at most. That may be reduced further in a Lib landslide. I certainly think one quota per state is the best the Greens can hope (currently two in Tas, SA, WA) in their slide down to oblivion. A double dissolution election may not be needed to get rid of them. Instead, we’ll have Cowboy Bob’s Queensland Cowhands. Fun, Fun, fun.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 12:57 pm
How many colour shifts does it take to go from leafy green to blood red?
Simon
13 Apr 12 at 1:00 pm
@tom – do you think QLD will keep a Greens senator?
I don’t think they will. Not if the state vote is anything to go by at 7%. Don’t you need 14% for a Quota?
Katterites in the Senate will be preferable to Greens.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 1:00 pm
I’m banking on the fact Bob will retire in any place other than Tasmania. Let’s face it, the place is a basket case, who would live there that could afford to live elsewhere?
Token
13 Apr 12 at 1:04 pm
Maybe this will help people understand that Greens are busy trashing civil rights – the same rights that the ANZACs fought and died for.
http://queenslandparty.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/honour-the-anzac-protect-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-civil-liberties/
Thumbnail
13 Apr 12 at 1:04 pm
Bye bye, Bob Brownhat
Phil E Steyn
13 Apr 12 at 1:06 pm
How many damned Bob’s does this country have in politics, Menzies, Hawke, Brown, Katter, Carr etc. It’s almost a prerequisite for poltics.
Simon
13 Apr 12 at 1:06 pm
There is a very good chance that the Greens will implode like the Democrats did after Don Chipp.
But anyway, let us celebrate crazy old Bob walking away. Seeya later you sanctimonious turd.
tbh
13 Apr 12 at 1:10 pm
The rants we can look forward to…
Milne
I love the bit where she says Murdoch press owns 70 per cent of the print media in Australia.
Keep talking, Milne.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 1:10 pm
Been predicting this to anyone who’d listen for a long time. The Greens will now enjoy a very brief peak under Christine Milne before imploding in a bickering heap that’ll make the Democrats look mature.
south
13 Apr 12 at 1:11 pm
Tony Abbott has claimed the scalps of Kevin Rudd, Bob Brown and has mortally wounded Julia Gillard.
He is, quite possibly, the greatest human being since the dawn of time.
Feral Abacus
13 Apr 12 at 1:15 pm
If you want to know where the rats will run to when the ship sinks, just check out which party the trots are colonising at university campuses.
Token
13 Apr 12 at 1:16 pm
But will Milne announce any new policies? Let’s hope so.
I’m torn between an impending breakup with Labor, an internal power struggle that gave him a choice to walk with his dignity if he handed it over, and a health problem.
Or, probably all of the above.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 1:16 pm
@brc: A quota is 8.3%, so, yes, you can probably count them out of Qld. But their Qld senator, Larrisa whatshername, doesn’t face election until 2016. I’d also count them out of WA based on the Qld vote. But only Ludlum is up for re-election in WA next year.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 1:17 pm
yes we are a bit late to the property bubble popping party, give it a chance…
Irving J
13 Apr 12 at 1:19 pm
“And my successor will do everything in her power to change this.”
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 1:19 pm
@tom yes cursed 6 year terms. One can only hope they try and block repealment of carbon tax and get double-dissolution’d for their troubles. Then Larissa can crawl back to whatever taxpayer teat she was sucking before getting into the Senate.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 1:21 pm
He’s stuffed the country and now wants to bolt rather than face the electorate.
Sean
13 Apr 12 at 1:21 pm
That’s as accurate as the old “Australia is the largest global CO2 emitter per capita”.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 1:23 pm
I advise not checking Twitter if one wants to keep down their lunch. Trending topic ‘Bob Brown’ is full of luvvies writing love poems for the chief Earthian.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 1:24 pm
Fme.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 1:25 pm
If it’s yellow
Let it mellow
If it’s Brown
Flush it down
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 1:26 pm
http://delimiter.com.au/2012/01/25/ludlam-suspects-govt-of-bugging-his-iphone/
Ludlam sounds sensible …?
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 1:28 pm
Ahahahaha.
Chris Kenny:
More:
RTWT.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 1:28 pm
Chris Kenny:
lol
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 1:30 pm
Miranda Devine:
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 1:37 pm
Ding dong the witch is dead, the gay old withch is dead
Rococo Liberal
13 Apr 12 at 1:37 pm
Okay, Okay I take it back. There!
JC
13 Apr 12 at 1:39 pm
Was that review taken on the day the $AU was at $1.07 to the $US?
Token
13 Apr 12 at 1:39 pm
Token
I’m still waiting for Whiteford’s reply. Get in line please.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 1:40 pm
From comments at Chris Kenny’s blog:
Emmy says:
Fri 13 Apr 12 (02:26pm)
The Green party is now much like Labor under Gillard, the women (except Waters) all act like the have testicles while the men all act like they should be at home raising the children. (no offence to my sisters)
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 1:43 pm
Good riddance you vile festering zombie.
Thanks for nothing.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 1:47 pm
“Greatly admired as a decent guy all round despite the politics”
An early comment but also profoundly ignorant of the reality.
BB is by far and away the most hated man on The Hill. Not for his views but because of his lack of integrity and honesty when making deals. There’ll be cheering on all sides up there.
Jack Lacton
13 Apr 12 at 1:49 pm
Is it wrong to say that if we played words association Adam Ant would immediately come to mind.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 1:56 pm
Chris Kenny nails it:
Token
13 Apr 12 at 1:56 pm
@JC: I just find it easier these days to assume everyone in federal politics is gay.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 1:59 pm
Thats the public perception Jack
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 2:11 pm
The feral abacus said:
That’s more a description of a very effective assassin. Tony Abbott appears to be a man of many talents.
amortiser
13 Apr 12 at 2:27 pm
From the Oz:
Thank heavens they’re dud grenades from North Korea.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 2:33 pm
FTFY, Milne.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 2:41 pm
Probably needn’t add my comment, the only risk I see is that while they have their inevitable tit for tat Julia will use the smoke screen to comply with yet more Union instructions & create a few more financially destructive laws – just to add to the reputation already created since the idiots have been running the show. International trade will by now be close to the level or ridicule attached to Australia
when glorious Whitlam was running loose!
maurie
13 Apr 12 at 3:10 pm
Congratualtions to Bob Brown for his exceptionally successful political career. They’ve now passed the National Party as the #3 force in Australian politics with more than 1.5 million people voting for the Greens at the last election.
BB as the only credible leader of the Big 3 parties goes out on top and it will be interesting to see if Christine Milne can continue the Greens growth to possibly one day replacing the ALP as the only genuine centre-left party around.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 3:16 pm
We are us.
ar
13 Apr 12 at 3:29 pm
National Party : 6 Fed Mps, 3 Fed Senators
LNP Nat Party Senators who site with Nat : 2
That makes 11 in Federal parliament for the Nats. 17 members of the QLD LNP state parliament are former Nationals.
Now count all the National Party state Mps vs Green State Mps.
#3 Force? Sorry, No. A single lower house seat in latte central and a gerrymanded result from Tasmania do not a political force make.
It’s all irrelevant anyway, 2010 election was the high water mark for the Greens.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 3:34 pm
Let me guess: Afghan hash? Acid?? Crack???
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 3:34 pm
How many people voted for the Nats again in the most recent federal election?
It’s ‘irrelevant’ if you’re a right-winger.
The Greens are now #3. Deal with it.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 3:36 pm
“We’re number 3! We’re number 3!”
What a terrific slogan.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 3:43 pm
We have a proportional representation system. Vote counting is as irrelevant as preferred PM ratings.
It’s impossible to tally the National vote now because of the LNP in QLD. You could work it out, but it’s too hard. Yes it will be lower than the Greens vote.
The Nationals are a larger force in politics than the Greens. They have more members and have state government representation. This fact is not in dispute.
I’m not a National party supporter at all. So I’m not clouded by emotion.
brc
13 Apr 12 at 3:43 pm
They are number 3, but they really aspire to be the biggest bunch of number 2′s in parliament.
Token
13 Apr 12 at 3:45 pm
LOL
The Greens have balance of power in the Senate and more people voted for them at the last election than voted for the Nats.
I’m not a member of the Greens either, just prefer reality.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 3:45 pm
Adam Bandt has been made deputy leader.
SHY was last seen chewing on a chair leg.
lotocoti
13 Apr 12 at 3:49 pm
Why? Any ideas?
ken n
13 Apr 12 at 3:50 pm
Bandt was a good choice although Scott Ludlam has future leader material written all over him.
SHY not so much.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 3:51 pm
Because she’s nuts.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 3:52 pm
I’d love to see SHY as deputy alongside Milne.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 3:52 pm
So you are an Earthian, ok.
Token
13 Apr 12 at 3:53 pm
Adam Bandt
Charming and very popular with younger voters would be why
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 3:53 pm
Ahahahahaha.
C.L.
13 Apr 12 at 3:53 pm
One would end up with an eating disorder.
lotocoti
13 Apr 12 at 3:56 pm
Doucheballs is right to some extent, the lunatic (bob) managed to graft a grassroots group of lunactics and irrationals creating a political party of deadbeats and attracting the more weak minded and mentally unbalanced to vote for the slimers.
He did achieve this result.
Jc
13 Apr 12 at 3:56 pm
“So you are an Earthian, ok.”
Are you saying you’re not?
Jarrah
13 Apr 12 at 3:57 pm
JC,
Like me do you agree that today should be remembered as Bob Brown Day, a future public holiday perhaps?
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 3:58 pm
I’m sure he’s popular with the hipster de-balled beta males and their hairy nasty hen type girlfriends (if any) of inner city Melbourne.
Jc
13 Apr 12 at 4:00 pm
Absolutely, Larry. We should commemorate the day Brown bobbed off. I for one will Celebrate this day every year.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 4:01 pm
http://www.vexnews.com/2012/04/whos-next-tasmanian-greens-ready-to-scrap-over-senate-vacancy-with-protest-militant-adam-burling-favourite/
Ivan Denisovich
13 Apr 12 at 4:02 pm
Doucheballs
Funny but we kinda agree for different reasons. I’m celebrating the economic illiterate and general loon leaving parliament while you’re celebrating his “achievements”.
So yea it could very well be mad dog bob day in fact.
However one small caveat here. I think deep down the dog knew some of the the stuff he pushed was economically toxic, as an refuse to believe a medical doctor could bent
Jc
13 Apr 12 at 4:04 pm
Lunatic comrade Bilb at the LP swoons with
Why does that blog have to go? Such comedy
Tiny Dancer
13 Apr 12 at 4:08 pm
Just as April 1st is “National check your smoke alarm battery day”, April 13th can become “Check for syphillus in memory of Bob Brown Day”.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 4:09 pm
Doucheballs
Funny but we kinda agree for different reasons. I’m celebrating the economic illiterate and general loon leaving parliament while you’re celebrating his “achievements”.
So yea it could very well be mad dog bob day in fact.
However one small caveat here. I think deep down the dog knew some of the stuff he pushed was economically toxic, as I refuse to believe a medical doctor could be that stupid and narrow minded.
But the opposite is the case for tubbie Milne. Yes she is that moronic. And yea the state of tassie would have been better off if tubbie had spent her time in the kitchen and the gym instead of getting involved with stuff she simply doesn’t understand and never will.
I had to laugh that idiot leader of the tassie state greenslime referred to tubbie as one of our best forward thinkers. Lol I’m speechless.
But overall I do concede the dog was a successful politician, doucheballs. Yep, that part is true.
Jc
13 Apr 12 at 4:09 pm
So, considering the Greens are about to embark on an internal civil war between the fruitcake environmentalist wing and the Peoples Revolutionary Army communist wing in the leadership vacuum created by Brown’s departure, how do you imagine they will transition to a party of the centre-left that appeals to people with real jobs and mortgages?
By 2016, the Greens will be lucky to have two senators left, Bandt having been thrown out next year when the major parties put the Greens last on their voting cards. If all nine Green senators were up for re-election next year, three would be lucky to survive. The swing is on and the Greens will have difficulty at future federal elections in attracting more than one quota in SA,Vic and NSW because they have exposed themselves as irresponsible economic vandals.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 4:10 pm
Loud and Proud that I not in touch with “that” reality, thanks for asking Jarrah
Token
13 Apr 12 at 4:11 pm
I hear that circus clowns have been lobbying for a day to recognise their contribution for years.
Token
13 Apr 12 at 4:12 pm
IT – you are a bad, bad man.
Sinclair Davidson
13 Apr 12 at 4:15 pm
Comrade JC,
economically toxic/enevironmentally friendly, depends what you think is more important really. The environment logically has to win out everytime in my opinion.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 4:15 pm
the SMH does have a sense of humour after all…
via Blair
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 4:18 pm
Maybe he just wants to be in hiding when the CO2 tax starts to hit the punters. Every job that is lost and every price rise for the rest of the year will be attributed to the tax, rightly or wrongly. See how that plays in middle Australia.
Rafe
13 Apr 12 at 4:20 pm
Adam Bandt is deputy leader. so much for sarah hanson-young?
adrian
13 Apr 12 at 4:20 pm
I’m with Gab, I think SH-Y and Milne would be a deadly combo. Would probably put the cause of the sisterhood back a thousand years or so however.
Megan
13 Apr 12 at 4:21 pm
Image: rolled newspaper, puppy whacked on the nose.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 4:22 pm
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 4:24 pm
Please don’t tell my wife.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 4:27 pm
Hope someone boltef the door behind him–just in case he changes his tiny green mind
Jazza
13 Apr 12 at 4:47 pm
But if the aliens have recalled their ambassador, doesnt that mean they are about to invade??
Bill
13 Apr 12 at 4:51 pm
so much for sarah hanson-young?
You can tell by looking at her that she’s another one of the alien caste. She’s clearly been stood down as well as Brown. Maybe the Earthling faction has risen up and overthrown their extraterrestrial masters?!
John Mc
13 Apr 12 at 5:02 pm
Hope someone bolted the door behind him–just in case he changes his tiny green mind
Jazza
13 Apr 12 at 5:07 pm
Thanks Gab, that puppy image is going to make me laugh every time I see SH-Y’s teeth clenching smile before she utters an inanity or fifty.
Megan
13 Apr 12 at 5:08 pm
Your new Greens leader Christine Milne on Capital Hill now.
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 5:34 pm
What, Larry? Is the mothership about to appear?
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 5:36 pm
Milne just said Abbott didn’t support the stimulus package, which is untrue.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 5:42 pm
I wish it was true.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 5:44 pm
Lol,
Why would Bandt be a good choice, the libs can preference the ALP in melbourne and he will lose his seat next election.
Sean
13 Apr 12 at 5:44 pm
“Certainly solidly a future Prime Minister for this country.”
LOL
“Loud and Proud”
Token’s an alien, everyone. Please make it feel welcome.
Jarrah
13 Apr 12 at 5:47 pm
Please, I can’t stop laughing.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 5:49 pm
Not just hipsters but an ab demographic
Trust funded kids with no responsibilities as well
Jealous?
The Greens are very good at pretending they are not a
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 5:52 pm
Not just hipsters but an ab demographic
Trust funded kids with no responsibilities as well
Jealous?
The Greens are very good at pretending they are not a force and its worked
selen234
13 Apr 12 at 5:58 pm
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/04/13/bob-brown-resigns-as-greens-leader/
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 6:03 pm
I refuse to increase traffic at crickey, Larry. Peddle crazy elsewhere.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 6:04 pm
On Brown’s watch Jimi Hendrix died and so did Tasmania.
This man is responsible for more suffering than Nickelback.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 6:06 pm
http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/national/national/environment/the-most-man-in-australia/2520882.aspx?storypage=0
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 6:17 pm
Wow, Douncheballs.
Ramsey clawed out of the nursing home to write that missive. How nice of him.
JC
13 Apr 12 at 6:21 pm
Douche
You really are an unsophisticated traveler, aren’t you?
Bernie and Al are regarded and objects of amusement here.
Jc
13 Apr 12 at 6:29 pm
http://consciencevote.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/bob-brown-resigns/
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 6:31 pm
Quoting Alan Ramsay, poster boy for press gallery bias… Not the best tactic for someone who wants to be taken seriously, Lyndon.
Abu Chowdah
13 Apr 12 at 6:32 pm
Why is Larry posting the same topic over and over? Does he have OCD?
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 6:34 pm
I love that last one, Lyndon. They spin a sinister lack of transparency as a positive. What a hoot!
The greens are totalitarian scum, who would shrivel up like vampires in the noon day sun if voters could see their back room scheming.
Abu Chowdah
13 Apr 12 at 6:34 pm
remember expressive voting.
the greens are a symbol rather than a party. the competency of their leaders seems to have little effect on their vote in either direction.
their vote will fall at the next election because fewer will be parking thier vote with them.
Jim Rose
13 Apr 12 at 6:38 pm
Lyndon, are you Bernard Keen?
Abu Chowdah
13 Apr 12 at 6:39 pm
Jim Rose is right. People know that the Greens will never have any power, so they use their vote as a statement about the major parties.
Jarrah
13 Apr 12 at 6:42 pm
Beautiful! “Leak like us you bastards!”
LaRouchite
13 Apr 12 at 6:47 pm
From that vexnews article:
Looks like the “hate” media will have lots of material to work with.
Jeremiah
13 Apr 12 at 6:55 pm
So what you proven Douche? Around here we all know the Greens are a doomsday cult. The fact the members don’t leak to outsiders is just a standard characteristic of such groups.
Token
13 Apr 12 at 7:08 pm
Opinion: he’s seen the writing on the wall, he knows something’s going down, and he’s getting out to avoid getting thrashed at the ballot box. He wants to spite the Libs and Nats by denying the electorate the right to punish him for his idiocies.
Alternative: health-related reasons.
perturbed
13 Apr 12 at 7:13 pm
Now he’ll have spare time to help the aliens terraform a new planet. They can make this new planet out of all the Greenie bull shit.
Ally
13 Apr 12 at 7:21 pm
So what?
The syph-ridden whackjob has enough smarts to see that the Greens are going to be gutted at the next election. So he’s showing his inner rat, leaving the sinking ship and will blame the coming collapse of the Greens on Madeye Milne, Sarah Snake Eyes and Lee of the KGB.
I despise hypocrites like Bobby the Brownhatter. so I hope we never hear of the foul totalitarian anti-human dirtball again. May he and his bearded catamite live happily ever after in their wooden hut in the economic wasteland their policies turned Tasmania into.
Mk50 of Brisbane
13 Apr 12 at 7:24 pm
She was grinning like Cheshire Cat on waccy baccy today when Bob was announcing his exit.
Gab
13 Apr 12 at 7:28 pm
If the Greens collapse, we’ll NEVER get rid of the frigging Labor party.
benson
13 Apr 12 at 7:40 pm
Comment of the day by a street (I laughed out loud then and cackled hours later as I related it at the pub. Thanks, Io). It will be ghoulish to see how much of the bloodletting becomes public over the next year.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 7:46 pm
Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not a nice person, Mk50.
Jarrah
13 Apr 12 at 7:48 pm
I wonder how long it will be before Bob announces he has a column in The Age?
Entropy
13 Apr 12 at 7:55 pm
Tomorrow morning. Unless the Saturday Age and the Sunday Age (separate editorial administrations) are fighting over it, in which case it may not be announced until Sunday morning. The SMH fighting for the headline rights could create an additional complication and there’s a danger Bob will overcommit himself doing commentary and making documentaries for the ABC.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 8:13 pm
In Brown’s defence I don’t believe he is a hypocrite. He genuinely believes all his ramblings. It’s quite charming until you realise how many lives he’s ruined.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 8:27 pm
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/do_as_brown_preaches_not_as_he_emits/
Ivan Denisovich
13 Apr 12 at 8:38 pm
Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Forester
13 Apr 12 at 8:38 pm
I cannot believe that someone on this thread has in all seriousness referenced alan tingles-shamsey.
BTW, did al ‘write’ the column in question or ross the git?
Or was just lifted wholesale from one of the festering zombie’s homages to himself?
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 8:45 pm
FFS, the festering zombie always considered itself to be of the nomenklatura.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 8:46 pm
“NEW Greens leader Christine Milne has vowed to court greater support in country Australia and among “progressive” businesses after succeeding Bob Brown today. ”
I can imagine Ms Milne talking to country folk, she seems a bit experienced a bit hard bitten or something, but Adam Bandt – he’s a very sleek, city looking man.
candy
13 Apr 12 at 8:53 pm
He’s the gallery’s most respected ventriloquist.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 8:58 pm
adam ant is an estrogen laden mutant.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:01 pm
Tom,
He’s yet another zombie.
I seriously thought he was dead.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:04 pm
“a bit hard bitten …” by a rabid Tassie fox.
blogstrop
13 Apr 12 at 9:04 pm
“adam ant is an estrogen laden mutant.”
what team does he bat for then? and Ms Milne, be interesting to know.
candy
13 Apr 12 at 9:05 pm
He genuinely believes all his ramblings. It’s quite charming until you realise how many lives he’s ruined.
Apparently Pol Pot was quite charming when you met him. And I’m sure Stalin genuinely believed a few tens of millions of lives was a small price to pay for the communist utopia.
As much as they might be charming these people need to be judged solely upon the harm they do to others. It’s not like they’re not aware of the damage, or haven’t had a chance to change their ways.
John Mc
13 Apr 12 at 9:07 pm
The Bobster was the last of the greenies in the Greens. We now have a communist part in alliance with the ALP.
Hold on to your title deeds folks.
Infidel Tiger
13 Apr 12 at 9:09 pm
Thanks, Jarrah! It’s unlike you to compliment me so. I see you admire this stone killer.
IT:
Oho, you have been bluffed by the propaganda, IT!
Consider the number of people he has killed. Consider his racism. Consider his totalitarianism and his cold callousness.
All of which are held in common with the other Greens.
THEIR ‘oh I wanna feel so good and smug and trendy about how good and smug and trendy I am’ attitudes have led to over a thousand people dying at sea since 2008.
The ecoloony policies of foul pieces of shit like them and their fellow greens dragged somewhere between 150 and 250 million people back from what the UN describes as ‘poverty’ into what the UN describes as ‘absolute poverty’ (read ‘not enough to eat’ or ‘live on less than $US1 per day) – just so these bastards could preen about biofuels.
Turning cheap food into fuel for fat Germans to burn. Great. Did you know that for each tankful of biofuel, 5 human beings go hungry for a year?
Remember the food riots in Central and South America in 2010 because the cheap US corn they depended on for food got turned into petrol, and people were starved in consequence?
Billions wasted on effing desal plants in this country alone due to their AGW scam when 5% of that money would have guaranteed clean potable water for every human being in melanesia AND eradicated malaria in Melanesia as well.
Brown and the rest of those filthy scumbags have blood on their hands – no, they swim in a sea of blood. All of which their compliant media presstitutes conceal.
They are stone-cold ideological killers.
But not to worry, they are only “little brown people”, and what do their lives matter compared to a Greenie feeling smug about his self-proclaimed moral superiority while he sips latte in Paddington or punches his catamite’s freckle in a hut in the economic wasteland Green policies created in Tasmania? How is that lack of concern for the real-world outcomes of their insane ideology not a demonstration of innate anti-humanism and/or racism?
And what about all those Tasmanians losing the dignity of work? ‘So what’, says this piece of shit, ‘trees matter more than people’.
Bob Brown and the policies he espouses at best cause untold human misery to millions upon millions of human beings who did nothing to deserve it and at worst are directly responsible for a thousand corpses at sea.
Bob Brown’s avuncular facade has a remorseless, soulless ideological stone killer behind it. And that bastard has gotten away with it – literally gotten away with killing people. Policies have consequences. Brown’s policy on border protection has killed people.
And he walks off scot-free, with people convinced he’s some kind of nice eccentric old man. Well, if he is, so was Mengele.
Go watch some reruns of 50+ people being drowned or battered to death against the cliffs of Christmas Island if you don’t believe me.
Bob Brown and the Greens bear half the responsibility for each and every one of those deaths. The ALP bears the rest.
That is why I viscerally despise Brown and the Greens – they are killers who have found a way to slaughter ‘little brown people’ and create untold human suffering, and they get away with it.
Mk50 of Brisbane
13 Apr 12 at 9:11 pm
They’ll have to be pried from my cold dead hands, Tigger.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:18 pm
What ‘team*’ does ‘he’ look like he bats for, FFS?
Tom’s ‘Golden Rule’ can be accessed further upthread.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:20 pm
More importantly, his ventriloquism is mainly responsible for the AFR’s circulation slide. The sooner Michael Stutchbury shows the Ramsay-Tingles the door (and the Chenoweths and the paper’s other watermelons) the faster the AFR recovers.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 9:23 pm
“Tom’s ‘Golden Rule’ can be accessed further upthread”
Qué?”
candy
13 Apr 12 at 9:27 pm
Let it die Tommy, let it die.
BTW, for exactly how long did envirofax think they could pull off the sheer ridiculousness of a ‘business’ paper whose journos and trollumists were all lobotomised leftists?
Such arrant insanity almost defies description.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:31 pm
Tom @ 1:59pm:
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:36 pm
WTF planet is this dumbass on? any idiot can’t but help be disavowed of all things leftist once they have to unravel the leftist bullshit and discover how reality works and make a business viable.
stinking stupid little commie want a cracker?
Irving J
13 Apr 12 at 9:40 pm
We are led to believe some serious anti-zombie firepower is massing inside the FXJ fortress.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 9:41 pm
Gold, Marky, Gold.
And ‘they’ will continue to do so, while good people sit back and do nothing.
It’s just about Insurrection Time™, as far as I’m concerned…
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:41 pm
I’m beyond giving a rodent’s backsayeedah, so to speak…
envirofax is good for little more than pointing and laughing, nowadays.
Rabz
13 Apr 12 at 9:43 pm
Pity the Cat doesn’t have a ‘Like’ button, Marko.
Tom
13 Apr 12 at 9:53 pm
Bit of a rant, but I stand by it.
Once you have personally helped recover the bodies of women and kids who have drowned at sea after a refugee vessel has gone down, you get very bloody angry about unspeakable filth like Brown who create and support a public policy which causes people to die at sea.
Mk50 of Brisbane
13 Apr 12 at 10:05 pm
Mk50
Steady on Bob Brown is not the world ruler. To blame everything on him is a bit harsh especially as you are talking about ALP policies half the time and Conservative side policies also regarding biofuels.
kelly liddle
13 Apr 12 at 10:20 pm
Good riddance you malevolent shit eating old shirtlifter.
Pickles
13 Apr 12 at 10:36 pm
He and the Greens are the cheerleaders, Kelly.
That’s why I said this:
I understand this very, very well. I was there, you see, when they brought that policy in, and I fought it as best I could in my position at the time.
But Rudd’s kiddieboy advisers just knew that there would be no outcomes from the policy change, as (and I quote) ‘you’d have to be stupid to think that people smugglers follow Australian border protection policy changes!’
Mk50 of Brisbane
13 Apr 12 at 10:42 pm
Can the Greens still count on the bearded doctors’ wives vote?
H B Bear
13 Apr 12 at 10:44 pm
Mk50, that needs to be given greater exposure. Make a blog if you haven’t got it already and spread it far and wide. The Greens and their Labor fellow-travellers and enablers are some of the greatest racists on the planet.
perturbed
13 Apr 12 at 10:44 pm
Mk50
I do agree with you just not your percentage blame as Labor is far more powerful. The ethanol bill in the US was signed by George Bush so it is a bit of a stretch to involve Bob Brown.
kelly liddle
13 Apr 12 at 10:53 pm
“The Greens are on trajectory to become a future government”, says B Brown
About the same trajectory as the recent Nth Korean rocket launch I believe.
Splatacrobat
13 Apr 12 at 10:57 pm
Was the biofuel bill in the US passed by a Republican dominated congress or a Democrat one, and did George Bush have enough political capital to veto it?
Blogstrop
14 Apr 12 at 6:49 am
Blogstrop
To the first part I don’t know but to the second part of course he had enough political capital as he couldn’t get elected again.
kelly liddle
14 Apr 12 at 9:56 am
Pickles….so elegantly put.I couldn’t agree more with you. Bob Brownhat’s gone thank goodness. Now for the rest of that malevolent crew; my favourite creep is Hanson-Young. Just the look of her makes me shudder….
Phil E Steyn
14 Apr 12 at 4:48 pm