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  • Christine on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' isn't it funny how DHS don't recognise the psychological effects of domestic violence on children and continue to allow ... more
  • Warrior princess on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' There is a family In the Cairns Area who are Foster Carers.Atherton Child Safety have threatened the carers and own ... more
  • duncan on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' i have spent time with this family. it is a house full of love. "mum", grandfather and older sblings.this cannot be an issue ... more
  • Tracey on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Family Law is different from the rest of the law in this country.. Ie. Family Law is based on probability: ie if it might ... more
  • carol annetta on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' having known this family for some time i am disgusted with the treatment she has received. it seems more of a witch hunt ... more
  • Maureen Hillary on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Derryn,I have counselled traumatized parents as a result of DHS staff.There are great staff workers who care but they ... more
  • Janet Tavener on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I am a visitor to this country.My attention was drawn to the case of these children and their foster mother by a relative of ... more
  • sam on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Happening in Tasmania also.Wewon a court case over 8 months ago and due process still hasn't been done.We spent 17,000 ... more
  • Anne Glover on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I just cannot believe what the DHS has put the Foster Mother, and the children through - I thought the DHS was supposed to ... more
  • Tracey on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' DHS are the most disgraceful organization I have ever had the displeasure of becoming involved with. They are so ... more
  • Vicki on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Hi Derryn,I have known this carer since primary school, she has always put others above herself. Being a carer myself I know ... more
  • Gran'ma Pam on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' As any of us with any sense know, these children should NEVER have been taken from this lady (mum) in the first place, they ... more
  • Dominic Lombardo on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' I see my daughter every six months DHS are conducting a vendetta against me I have not been told why I can only see her ... more
  • cassy houghton on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Hello Derryn,Firstly i would like to thankyou for your support and the willingness to help this beautiful family.I ... more
  • Warrior princess on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Im a carer also in Qld. I see this happen way too much from our Government. They are starting to use Carers own children as ... more
  • paul on "I'll pay the fee," says Hinch I believe what Liberal Party has done is stupid. But I feel for candidates like Joh Bauch and James Buonopane who want to ... more
  • Andrea on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Why are these public servants allowed to blatantly flout the law without the same consequences the rest of society faces? I ... more
  • birth mother on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' i am the birth morther of these 4 children and i just want to say dhs dont care they just want the kids in care so they can ... more
  • Frances Goff on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Derryn, Firstly, Happy BirthdayHaving worked in a primary school for 15 year I have seen some terrible things regarding DHS ... more
  • Karen on Help Hinch fight DHS 'pinheads' Hi Derryn, I have known these children through "the system".for all of their lives. I have had regular contact with them ... more

'Whatever it takes'

Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 1 September, 2010 - 4:17 PM
Adam Bandt

RELATED AUDIO:

Hinch speaks to Adam Bandt

EDITORIAL: And so we have a coalition trying to form a government.

Not the Coalition led by Tony Abbott and his Liberals and Nationals but a loose coalition between Labor and The Greens.

The Greens see it as a sort of Scandinavian-type government with Australia, I guess, the new Sweden. In fairness, the deal gives Julia Gillard the semblance of the ‘stable and effective Government’ she is touting to the Three Amigos.

Bob Brown says the deal means that ‘The Greens will ensure Supply and oppose any motions of no confidence in the government from other parties or MPs’.

In return Julia Gillard gets the vote of the Lower House Green Adam Bandt—but Labor would have got that anyway. And that takes the Prime Minister to 73 votes. Andrew Wilkie, who stood against John Howard in Bennelong as a Green in 2004, must surely still be pencilled in to the Labor column despite his wish list.

Out west the independent national can be added to the Libs and it comes back again to the Three Amigos. Or Three Egos as I’m starting to call them.

But back to the Labor-Greens pact. How can it work? Sure they agree on a carbon tax. But not the size of it. And they agree on a mining tax but not the size of it.

On boat people Bob Brown and his team have a much softer policy than the one embraced with Julia Gillard in a bid to dilute Abbott and his Stop the Boats campaign.

On gay marriage The Greens want a conscience vote. Neither Labor nor the Coalition agree with him on that. Julia Gillard said during the campaign that the opposition to gay marriage was not only her government’s policy but her personal view. And Abbott once said he felt ‘threatened’ by homosexuals.

Still, the agreement calls for Prime Minister Gillard ( if she gets there) to hold a weekly meeting with Brown and Bandt but there won’t be a Green in Cabinet.

One of the first things to go is Gillard’s much scoffed at Citizen’s Assembly she bravely championed during the election. It will be replaced by a ‘climate change committee’ of like-minded politicians and some outside experts.

What it means is that the alliance will pull the Labor Party further Left—although they’ll never get to where the Greens are.

And how will the Right Wing powerbrokers feel about that? And this whole marriage of convenience?

On Q and A recently when he was asked about a Labor/Greens coalition Graham ‘whatever it takes’ Richardson said: ‘over my dead body’.

But, when your chance of getting into The Lodge relies on some very strange bedfellows then whatever it takes ... is whatever it takes.

Katter rocks boat as Greens back ALP

Bob Katter Queensland MP Bob Katter is at odds with his fellow independents about the importance of the preference vote count. Meanwhile, the Greens have surprised no-one by backing the ALP. Read the report from earlier on in the day by clicking the image of Katter.

Blog comments Your Say

  • Richo - is this the same Richo involved with the tax evasion case with Rene Rivkin an Swiss bank accounts, where the Swiss refused to provide information as did some bloke called Richardson?

    Paddt Thursday 2 September, 2010 - 4:54 PM

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