Some unique individuals want to change a definition that doesn't rationally include them

At national conference. Great that Julia has allowed a debate on changing the platform of how marriage is defined .
Suddenly a self select group of comrades and delegates( who can't even fill the conference room normally
 are going to storm a decision held against them for the life of the party. ( Margin against the decision in the real democracy is said to be 4:1against )ensuring labors electoral defeat and labors allowance of a voting block.A conference where Faulkner is the intellectual of note ( by winning a word game that really doesn't mean anything) and  Cameron the commended character assassin. Not a good look for the party.
A simple truth -one relationship is not just one in marriage ,something that equality spruckers seem to ignore-(equality and rights of those affected?) its more than 2 people doing what they like .In secular terms marriage  focus has always been on families .Wong doesn't mention this issue because only one thing is clear . we want to be treated as though we are just the same as everyone else when to do that means rejecting the idea of their uniqueness ( something we do respect).
No doubt we will hear from comrades about what they think. Whether the delegates on the question of changing the definition of marriage represent anything but homsexuals is not clear . What is clear is that this small group want to control the meaning of the word .Marriage is not a right but the lobby say it is . Sound thinkers know that those who fight for rights may only have their own issues in focus . Marriage as defined by law ( not religion) is for the benefit of children in particular .
Respecting adult choices over sex speaks to life's aspirations for children . The majority of us accept that we should respect adult choices .This we will continue to do What we don't accept is the dictation from a minority that marriage should mean all things to all men .The shallow ambition of a few will become the model of confusion for our children. I hope a few comrades don't get their way on something that affects our children attitude to matters of commitment and how and where it works for their long term benefit.

The toilet needs flushing

The Greens can't be taken seriously. Like many marginal parties they are disagreeable for the sake of being disagreeable . Unlike the farmers though,  they can't talk to the details of the Murray Darling plan , which makes them largely just noise  .
They camp at the end of the process waiting for a door to open , expecting only toxic stuff to come forth . Somehow once it got past them and entered Bass strait , it would all be cleaned up . All they want is a say ?

Feel good taxes

The hugs won't last because the idea of setting a price on carbon is too simple and not targeted well enough to be effective and efficient .
The dummies like Wong were expounding how efficient the new taxes were in Parliamant today unaware that efficiciency alone is a cul desac in ecomia -Hitler was efficient .
The experts on the program on ABC3 tonight ( green economy-future forum) quietly made the points above and below this blog .
Most importantly,generalized innoculation type carbon taxes are wrong because they don't target inefficency and because new energy demand competes directly with agriculture and the poor.
SO  the dummies are targeting the poor and vulnerable .  the greatest evil is often done in the name of the best intention.

Feel good taxes

The hugs won't last because the idea of setting a price on carbon is too simple and not targeted well enough to be effective and efficient .
The dummies like Wong were expounding how efficient the new taxes were in Parliamant today unaware that efficiciency alone is a cul desac in ecomia -Hitler was efficient .
The experts on the program quietly made the points above and below this blog .
Most importantly,generalized innoculation type carbon taxes are wrong because they don't target inefficency and because new energy competes with agriculture,
SO  the dummies are targeting the poor and vulnerable .  the greatest evil is often done in the name of the best intention.

Labor's welcome sense of a mature attitude to growth

Offering tokens at election can win elections,  but it won't keep you in government.

Gillard , with the Greens running the show,  knows she has to show how Labor still has some backbone . Her statement today that she intends to make her position clear on some middle ground ground issues is very welcome. A mixed bag of grabs it may be, but at least the marginal and noisy naysayers are off the agenda .
The Greens at least have consistency on their side - consistent nagging on their same old same old tired old, predictable list of superficial evils. Why listen - we have heard it all before !!!and we are sick of it

No doubt the Greens will seek to mediate a solution (or manufacture some spin)  to the sleeping giant s wake up call - but having changed everything often ( and therefore undermined their credibility on moral ground  by constantly moving it - the moral ground clearly more passively shared by others ) they are not credible - be interesting to see if they can agree to say something useful or just hug each other over every token word that seems to say they are being taken seriously

Labor's needs to stop selling things and trying to fiddle with the market -something they are hopeless at

Who knows or cares  why the matters are on the agenda - at least the crap on the edge is not .
We know she's been wearing invisible clothes even if the conference doesn't get that  yet either .
Change driven by desperation doesn't keep you in power either .
Maybe rather than have debates at  conferenence
-electives on a narrative that makes sense

Pay me,  don't pay spin doctors ,
you dummies  --Short term gain long term pain

$100000 a spin

Don't mind any party getting a news briefing , but The Greens "always had"  policy announcement on $1 a time  didn't sound newsworthy or authorative today ; proves they get special spin treatment from the ABC.  I bet the independants don't get the same treatment when they say nice things about someone else's ideas .
Di Natalie  tell us what the productivity commission and 2 independents told us .....and they are not certain will work either .
Happy to just get some spin and sound sort of confident - like they know they need to . Like Bob Brown said - "not sure it will work:  (Implication :  but we don't have to be accountable for standing behind our words?  Ho Ho Ho all we need - more suggestions .

Eventually Labor has to believe something bigger

Albanese's comment about "a protest of no consequence" shows how deeply out of touch he really is with the Australian people .
Does Caucus really know what its doing?. Crean 's father and Beasley would understand the following but would Simon  or Shorten ( except in the empty macheliavellian sense ) ?
' Our forefathers said "If you don't stand for anything you fall for everything"; . Labor stands for green . Labor 's position is  not much different from standing in the wind and hoping it will sway you in the right direction .