I love that added quote by Clive. Bob Brown has similarly dippy religious views. I wonder if a tendency to new-age/Gaian spirituality is more common amongst Greens voters/politicians? The major parties seem to be more inclined to traditional belief.

I think you’re right, TimT, although I do find it amusing. In writing the novel I’m working on now, I’ve had to do a mountain of research into classical and Celtic paganism… and believe me, dippy and cute it is not. The line that keeps occurring to me when I read various accounts of what people believed and the practices they followed is ‘Mother Nature, the Bloody Bitch’. This is not to say that it is any better or worse than what came after (Christianity and Islam). Sure, a strong case can be made for greater tolerance and a more positive view of sexuality (the former has been seized upon by aspects of the Green movement, although I suspect most people draw the line at orgies; Clive Hamilton certainly does — he is very puritan) but other aspects are deeply retrograde.

The worst of both worlds, it really is.

Just shut up. Yes, there’s a nuanced, tolerant, and non-divisive position that certainly bodes well for the future policy initiatives of the Greens… not!

I also really hate the politics of fear (whether it’s fear over asylum seekers, global warming, terrorists etc). I just think that bad decisions tend be made on that basis, and Hamilton’s screeds reek of fear — which tends to suggest he won’t make good decisions.

So by all means, he can run for office, and he can say what he wants, but I don’t find it at all attractive or consistent with his party’s policies. And I hope that his opponent wins. That’s all I’m saying.

Otherwise the cutting tool will come out on my return.

Nope, wrong again. I have a full head of hair. Sorry, but I find everything about cue ball detestable.

I’ll repeat he makes Griffin look good and Griffin is clearly a rancid fascist.