Just recently the Greens were outed on their real agenda and it doesn’t prioritise the environment.
The revelation came about when the Greens moved a motion to secure the chair’s position for the senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee.
The role of committee chairs is to hold the government to account. Given the Greens signed a coalition agreement with the Gillard Government, granting them the chair position was hardly appropriate.
Chairs are also usually selected by the committees. The Greens sought to override this long-held senate procedure by getting the government to introduce a motion on their behalf, again proving their cosy coalition partnership with Labor.
Labor and the Greens had the numbers to win the motion. The Coalition proposed an amendment that, if the Senate was going to allow the Greens an extra position, then they should chair the Environment and Communications References Committee instead. But the Greens rejected the opportunity to chair a committee that deals with issues that one would think would be core business for the party.
It may seem a trivial debate over procedure, but it proved the Greens are more interested in pursuing their social and political agenda than environmental issues.
Just as we suspected all along.
Senator Fiona Nash,
The Nationals Senator for NSW
Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Senate
