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5 Australian Greens in the Senate, a time to celebrate perhaps? It certainly is a positive sign for our democracy when a strong progressive-environmental view is held with-in the Senate. In regards to the Democrats, I have no sympathy for them, we all know why no one no longer votes for them. Their policy of not-blocking legislation was eventually going to bring their downfall at some stage. They are blamed for the Howard governments first reforms of Labor rights in the late 90s, that was the beginning of workchoices.
I think the best to come out of the Greens representation in the Senate, is the little basis that exists to the argument that the Greens are 'extremist' or 'fundamentalist'. If you look at the career experience each individual Greens member brings to the parliament, that argument can easily be disposed of. Each are highly educated.