The rise in the Greens’ vote is a rapidly flashing red warning light for mainstream Australians, including those on both sides of parliament – as indicated by Labor’s Lindsay Tanner’s response to the Green attack on his increasingly trendy federal seat of Melbourne before he announced he was leaving the parliament.

For years now, Liberal and Labor have been falling over each other, courting the Green vote and even some Nationals have been sucked in. I had personal experience of this when I ran as an independent for the federal seat of Bendigo in 2001, having been a member of the Liberal Party from 1979 to 1996. Incredibly, the Liberal Party placed the Greens ahead of me on the ballot paper.

Labor chasing Green preferences has real value as there is no doubt that most Green votes go back to Labor with the Libs struggling to pick up any crumbs.

There are, of course, sensible and practical Greens—most good farmers and city dwellers are—but then there are the deadly serious “deep” Greens led by the very astute master salesman Bob Brown.

Some commentators tag the Greens with the “communist” label, and others point to similarities with German fascism. A study of the Hitler Youth movement reveals an organised communing with nature, involving tree planting ceremonies and the historical significance of the forests relative to pagan rituals. Hitler Youth programmes and the communists concentrated on social engineering and instilling in the young, totalitarian values that would affect every aspect of life – literally from the cradle to the grave.

The Australian Greens’ policies also smack of the control of the individual by the state. The Greens talk about reducing the voting age to sixteen – a mind-boggling policy that would give the vote to schoolchildren indoctrinated by an education system influenced by left-wing teaching unions and without a skerrick of real-life experience to counteract it. The result of such a strategy would surely reward the Greens and Labor electorally.

The Greens are masters of clever double-speak and spin – cloaking many of their controversial policies in terms that make them superficially seem almost mainstream – the Greens’ drug policies are one example.

The Greens now state that they do not support the legalisation of currently illegal drugs, opting instead for a “harm minimisation” approach. However, past loopy Greens have spruiked the legalisation of “killer” drugs, with one declaring that “one day these drugs will be available at our post offices”. Young people are to be informed about substance “use” but apparently not “abuse”; and the regulated use of marijuana for medical purposes is promoted despite overwhelming medical evidence that the dreaded weed does very serious damage to the chemistry of the brain. More injecting rooms would be provided as the Greens’ drug policies eat up more and more government spending.

Many well-intentioned but naïve people are flirting with the legalisation of killer drugs on the basis that the war on drugs is “unwinnable”, but just imagine the taxpayer becoming a drug grower, manufacturer and dealer via a huge bureaucracy that would become rapidly and massively corrupted and maladministered – staffed, no doubt, by the same kind of people that oversaw the killer pink batts debacle and the BER excesses.

The Greens’ main power base is presently in local government, particularly in Victoria where Green-dominated councils run their policies, unchallenged by Labor and Liberal. The recent murderous Victorian bushfires leave many questions unanswered, including the obvious part played by the crazy Green local government by-laws forbidding the removal of roadside fallen timber and the clearing of vast quantities of dead trees and debris from the forest floors. Freehold landowners have been prosecuted for cutting firebreaks on their properties, but calls have been made for charges of criminal negligence to be laid against Green councils in respect of the loss of life and property. A Green-shy Victorian Liberal Party has been mainly silent on these issues.

A Greens-controlled Australia would see our nation join the ranks of the Third World, with all our coal-fired power stations closed down and killing what’s left of our manufacturing industries. Mooted native-forest-fuelled power stations would take us back to the pre-industrial age.

The Greens consider human-created climate change a given and believe that we are threatened by “catastrophe” and “disaster”. A Greens’ Minister for Climate Change and Energy would head up another massive taxpayer-funded bureaucracy and there would be lots of “policing” activities with ordinary Australians as the targets.

The Greens’ immigration policy points ultimately to an Australia with “open borders”, with the inevitable chaos and social upheaval that would result from such madness; and this would be the final onslaught on the once great Australian culture, which would disappear in a mad, multicultural melting pot.

Australians have been poorly served by the major parties for years now, and the One Nation disaster was the last throw for many who were hoping for an organised and strong third force.

As in the UK, disillusioned and confused voters in Australia can see little light at the end of the tunnel and this frustration has led many to consider the Greens without properly analysing their policies.

A Greens-controlled Senate would be our worst nightmare. So voters will have to grit their teeth and take a punt on the Coalition if that mob of nervous Nellies can wake up in time.

John Pasquarelli is an artist, author, columnist, and a former PNG MP. His website is available at http://www.johnpasquarelli.com/

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