Greens sailing to power in German state
Sun Mar 27, 2011

BERLIN – Germany's anti-nuclear Greens on Sunday scored a remarkable victory over chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party in a state election that had turned into a referendum on nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.

The Greens doubled their voter share in wealthy Baden-Wuerttemberg state and seemed poised to oust Merkel's Christian Democrats who held power there for almost six decades, according to preliminary results released by the state electoral commission.

The Greens are also set to win their first ever state governorship, the results showed.

"This is a day that has strongly changed the political landscape in Germany," party chairwoman Claudia Roth said in Berlin.

The Greens secured 24.2 percent of the vote, with the center-left Social Democrats down 2 percentage points at 23.1 percent. That secures them a narrow lead to form a coalition government with a combined 71 seats in the state legislature, the results showed.

"We have secured what amounts to a historic electoral victory," the Greens' local leader Winfried Kretschmann told party members in Stuttgart.

Cont ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110327/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_elections



This is part of a GROWING movement - and AWARENESS - world-wide
Like their German affiliates, the AUSTRALIAN Greens are NOT going away
The movement is here for the "long haul"  

I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D

Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear.

BigOl64 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:08am:

I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear.

So you support the fear of a new tax but ridicule the fear of a nuclear accident......I fail to see any logic in your argument???

:)

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:04am:

Greens sailing to power in German state Sun Mar 27, 2011 BERLIN – Germany's anti-nuclear Greens on Sunday scored a remarkable victory over chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party in a state election that had turned into a referendum on nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster. The Greens doubled their voter share in wealthy Baden-Wuerttemberg state and seemed poised to oust Merkel's Christian Democrats who held power there for almost six decades, according to preliminary results released by the state electoral commission. The Greens are also set to win their first ever state governorship, the results showed. "This is a day that has strongly changed the political landscape in Germany," party chairwoman Claudia Roth said in Berlin. The Greens secured 24.2 percent of the vote, with the center-left Social Democrats down 2 percentage points at 23.1 percent. That secures them a narrow lead to form a coalition government with a combined 71 seats in the state legislature, the results showed. "We have secured what amounts to a historic electoral victory," the Greens' local leader Winfried Kretschmann told party members in Stuttgart. Cont ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110327/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_elections This is part of a GROWING movement - and AWARENESS - world-wide Like their German affiliates, the AUSTRALIAN Greens are NOT going away The movement is here for the "long haul"

Oh good. The German's can screw themselves for us to watch and go 'thank god Australians were not that stupid'

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:19am:

BigOl64 wrote on Mar 31st, 2011 at 7:08am: I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear. So you support the fear of a new tax but ridicule the fear of a nuclear accident......I fail to see any logic in your argument??? :)

WTF are you on about?

Nothing in my statement, or the very pretty initial post, mentions anything about any friggen tax.

Don't question my logic when your statement is neither cogent, rational or friggen logical.

They're Greens Bigol... expecting logic is a bit silly!

the best part is that buzzard now has to go OVERSEAS to see any Green successes. He needs reminding however that the Greens 'successes' in Germany are nothing more than gaining back the ground they lost last time when they suffered a major repudiation.

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 8:08am:

They're Greens Bigol... expecting logic is a bit silly! the best part is that buzzard now has to go OVERSEAS to see any Green successes. He needs reminding however that the Greens 'successes' in Germany are nothing more than gaining back the ground they lost last time when they suffered a major repudiation.

And only YOU, could read an INCREASE in the Greens' primary (as has been the pattern EVERY state and federal election) as a "dreadful result"

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 8:08am:

They're Greens Bigol... expecting logic is a bit silly! the best part is that buzzard now has to go OVERSEAS to see any Green successes. He needs reminding however that the Greens 'successes' in Germany are nothing more than gaining back the ground they lost last time when they suffered a major repudiation.

Quote:

Merkel's party has held power in the region around Stuttgart — home to some 11 million people — since 1953 and the ballot was seen as the most important of Germany's seven state elections this year. The prosperous southwestern region, home to carmakers Daimler AG, Porsche SE and software house SAP AG, was the only state where the same center-right coalition that governs Germany as a whole had to face state voters. The Greens' success there was also partly explained by its opposition to a disputed railway project in Stuttgart, which the center-right government tried to push through despite widespread protests. The results in Baden-Wuerttemberg also further weaken Merkel's coalition's stance in Germany's upper house of parliament, which represents the 16 states, increasingly forcing her to seek compromises to get major legislation passed. Also voting Sunday was Rhineland-Palatinate state, where preliminary official results saw the Social Democrats losing their absolute majority, poised to form a coalition government with the triumphant Greens who more than trebled their vote. Governor Kurt Beck's Social Democrats fell 9.9 percentage points to 35.7 percent, while the Greens rose from 4.6 percent to 15.4 percent. The Christian Democrats are seen gaining 2.5 points to 35.3 percent. The Free Democrats fell below 5 percent and thus would no longer be in the state parliament, according to the preliminary results.

BigOl64 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:08am:

I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear.

You've just encapsulated the entire manifesto of the current Federal Liberal Party.

Dsmithy70 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 8:32am:

BigOl64 wrote on Mar 31st, 2011 at 7:08am: I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear. You've just encapsulated the entire manifesto of the current Federal Liberal Party.

While i do agree with you on that statement, this isn't about the liberal party, this is about the boxhead greens.

Germans and Austrians have always been a bit that way.

I recall on my very first day living in Vienna being taken to task by a complete stranger for not separating my recycled rubbish in the correct bins.

This was 1996. The Austrians all rode on bikes and recycled near on everything.
To me and my UK colleague on a uni exchange it was a different world.
I told the lady in England it all goes in the same bin, she was appalled.

So the Greens always do well in these hippy kind of countries.

I could have brought up with this woman how her country produced Adolf Hitler and murdered 6m people because of their religion but I let it slide.....

Buzz has now abandoned all pretence of being a Labor supporter and has shifted his allegiance 100% to the party of the anti-semite Mayor of Marrickville.
Not surprising that that region in Germany has gone for the Greens, being  home to a lingering pool of nazi sympathies. I believe it is where Visconti filmed his movie "The Damned" and the locals enjoyed the work as extras dressed in their SA brownshirt uniforms.
Buzz of course has shifted his support for the most practical of reasons, ie the Greens are the only party likely to give him a homosexual marriage certificate.

I don’t think the Greens in Germany have the same radical open-door immigration views as the Australian Greens.  I think the GG’s are more focused on a greener earth for everyone and cleaner energy.  

unlike the Green here in Australia worry about homosexual, illegal people in detention, carbon tax .. but the Green in Germany is not that extreme but smarter .. it worries about its people safety if expose to Nucleus .. and disasters in Japan have helped them with supports ..

buzzanddidj wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 8:17am:

longweekend58 wrote on Mar 31st, 2011 at 8:08am: They're Greens Bigol... expecting logic is a bit silly! the best part is that buzzard now has to go OVERSEAS to see any Green successes. He needs reminding however that the Greens 'successes' in Germany are nothing more than gaining back the ground they lost last time when they suffered a major repudiation. And only YOU, could read an INCREASE in the Greens' primary (as has been the pattern EVERY state and federal election) as a "dreadful result"

Complex analysis is clearly beyond you. But I might point out that during the time of the Liberals poll woes some 18months ago MY ANALYSIS of events predicted a resurgence of liberal polls (although not as fast as happened) and a significant problem for the decision-free labor govt. I was proven right while you were proven wrong. On that basis alone my prediction that the Greens have reached the zenith of their popularity is proving true. the fed election was their max and since then every election has had a result below that. You just dont liek analysis that disputes your love of all thigns Green. be it polls or even election results - everythign is rogue unless it supports what you believe.

Former minister for the environment John Gormley is to step down as Green Party leader.

Mr Gormley, who lost his Dáil seat in the general election, told party members in an email that he would not be seeking re-election.

In an email to party members, Mr Gormley described the party’s performance in the election, which saw it lose all six of its Dail seats, as a “temporary demise”.

The party will hold a meeting of its national executive council at the end of this month, before its annual general meeting in May. It is hoping to initiate a strategy for the next local elections in three years’ time.

Under party rules, a leadership contest must be held within six months of an election.

Mr Gormley won a ballot of members to become leader in July 2007, taking over from Trevor Sargent, who resigned when the party entered coalition with Fianna Fáil.

Senator Dan Boyle, party chairman, would not be drawn today on whether he would contest the leadership. But he was confident the party could rebuild. “It’s not a unique experience,” he said. “The German Greens, the Belgian Greens and the Czech Greens have all had similar experiences. It’s something of a rite of passage almost for the Green Party in terms of their first experience of parliament, their first experience of government.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0320/breaking14.html

WELL NOT ALL THE GREENS ARE MAKING GAINS, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE IRISH HAD A GUTFUL OF THE GREENS, IRELAND IS BROKE PARTLY BECAUSE OF THEM,  ;D ;D ;D

I know Buzz these days is leaning on the GREENS, I guess his happy with Labors new role in the alliance of PLAYING THE B***H.  ;D

and here's another green who has hit her head on the stupidity extremism branches all the way down.


Quote:

GREENS leader Bob Brown is under mounting political and diplomatic pressure to pull his hard-left senator-elect Lee Rhiannon into line as she intensifies her support for a radical boycott of Israel. Ms Rhiannon, who will take her Senate spot on July 1 when the Greens take the balance of power in the upper house, yesterday drew condemnation from Labor and the Coalition after expressing regret that the NSW Greens did not campaign harder for a boycott of Israeli goods and services at last weekend's state election. Trade Minister Craig Emerson said last night the policy was disgusting and he feared it represented an extremism that would make its way to Canberra. Dr Emerson told The Australian: "Confirmation by senator-elect Rhiannon of this disgusting policy is reprehensible." He applauded voters in the inner-western Sydney seat of Marrickville, who returned erstwhile Labor deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt to parliament over Greens candidate Fiona Byrne, a supporter of an Israeli boycott. "Good on the people of Marrickville for rejecting this Greens extremism, and I am confident that the rest of Australia will too."Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said the Gillard government did not condone nor support any boycotts or sanctions against the Jewish state. Senator Brown's office said an Israeli boycott was not Greens national policy, but Coalition figures said they were concerned Ms Rhiannon would influence the party's platform when she arrived in Canberra. Ms Rhiannon was quoted on the online news site New Matilda as saying, in the wake of the Coalition's landslide victory in NSW, that the Greens should have spent more time building support for the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, particularly among academics, Arab communities and social justice groups. "Months before the election we needed to explain why the Greens backed BDS and we needed to work closer with our allies on BDS - academics, the Arab community and social justice movements in Sydney and Melbourne," Ms Rhiannon was quoted as saying. "Collectively we didn't do enough to amplify support for BDS and show that this is part of an international movement." An Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce spokesman warned yesterday that boycotts on Israeli goods could prevent access to potentially groundbreaking water-saving technology and telecommunications switches that may be picked up by the National Broadband Network. Ms Rhiannon refused to return The Australian's calls yesterday, as did all federal Greens MPs. Tony Abbott denounced her position, calling on Julia Gillard to distance Labor from Ms Rhiannon's views. "The Coalition completely rejects any campaign designed to weaken Israel and can't understand why a supposed environmental party are involved in this nonsense," the Opposition Leader told The Australian. "Given the Greens are Labor's political bedfellows, I call on the Prime Minister to pull her alliance partner into line." Other Liberal MPs expressed concern that Ms Rhiannon's position would infect the federal Greens platform and contaminate government policy. "I am particularly concerned that Lee Rhiannon, who is going to become a member of the governing Labor/Greens alliance federally, is going to bring those views into this alliance," Liberal senator Mitch Fifield told The Australian. But Senator Fifield also dismissed Dr Emerson's attack on the Greens in light of the deal signed by Ms Gillard with Senator Brown last September to secure minority government. "The fact that Labor is prepared to be in a governing alliance with the Greens makes their denunciation of the (NSW) Greens' Israel boycott ring a little hollow," he said. Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop said Ms Rhiannon's comments were "extreme", "highly prejudicial" and "deeply troubling". She said that, in light of Ms Rhiannon's views, the Prime Minister needed to guarantee the Greens would not influence her government's foreign policy. "Given that the Greens do not support our alliance with the US either, the Prime Minister must guarantee the Greens will not influence Labor's foreign policy in the same way as they have influenced Labor's policy on a carbon tax," Ms Bishop said. A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd said last night: "Australia is firmly committed to Israel's security and fully recognises the significant security challenges Israel faces. "The Australian government has consistently supported a negotiated two-state solution to the Middle East peace process where Israel and a future Palestinian state live side by side in peace and security." Ms Rhiannon, who entered the NSW Legislative Council in March 1999 and is a former member of the Socialist Party of Australia, is one of four new Greens senators who will travel to Canberra in July. They will take the number of Greens in the upper house to nine, securing the party the balance of power and greater ....

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/bob-brown-told-to-rein-in-anti-israel-senator-lee-rhiannon/story-fn59niix-1226031644809

It`s abundantly clear to anyone with any cognitive ability at all that "Greens" generally are no more than a lazy, feel good party, living off the system and the environment that they so heroically profess to protect.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 11:39pm:

and here's another green who has hit her head on the stupidity extremism branches all the way down. Quote: GREENS leader Bob Brown is under mounting political and diplomatic pressure to pull his hard-left senator-elect Lee Rhiannon into line as she intensifies her support for a radical boycott of Israel. Ms Rhiannon, who will take her Senate spot on July 1 when the Greens take the balance of power in the upper house, yesterday drew condemnation from Labor and the Coalition after expressing regret that the NSW Greens did not campaign harder for a boycott of Israeli goods and services at last weekend's state election. Trade Minister Craig Emerson said last night the policy was disgusting and he feared it represented an extremism that would make its way to Canberra. Dr Emerson told The Australian: "Confirmation by senator-elect Rhiannon of this disgusting policy is reprehensible." He applauded voters in the inner-western Sydney seat of Marrickville, who returned erstwhile Labor deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt to parliament over Greens candidate Fiona Byrne, a supporter of an Israeli boycott. "Good on the people of Marrickville for rejecting this Greens extremism, and I am confident that the rest of Australia will too."Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said the Gillard government did not condone nor support any boycotts or sanctions against the Jewish state. Senator Brown's office said an Israeli boycott was not Greens national policy, but Coalition figures said they were concerned Ms Rhiannon would influence the party's platform when she arrived in Canberra. Ms Rhiannon was quoted on the online news site New Matilda as saying, in the wake of the Coalition's landslide victory in NSW, that the Greens should have spent more time building support for the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, particularly among academics, Arab communities and social justice groups. "Months before the election we needed to explain why the Greens backed BDS and we needed to work closer with our allies on BDS - academics, the Arab community and social justice movements in Sydney and Melbourne," Ms Rhiannon was quoted as saying. "Collectively we didn't do enough to amplify support for BDS and show that this is part of an international movement." An Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce spokesman warned yesterday that boycotts on Israeli goods could prevent access to potentially groundbreaking water-saving technology and telecommunications switches that may be picked up by the National Broadband Network. Ms Rhiannon refused to return The Australian's calls yesterday, as did all federal Greens MPs. Tony Abbott denounced her position, calling on Julia Gillard to distance Labor from Ms Rhiannon's views. "The Coalition completely rejects any campaign designed to weaken Israel and can't understand why a supposed environmental party are involved in this nonsense," the Opposition Leader told The Australian. "Given the Greens are Labor's political bedfellows, I call on the Prime Minister to pull her alliance partner into line." Other Liberal MPs expressed concern that Ms Rhiannon's position would infect the federal Greens platform and contaminate government policy. "I am particularly concerned that Lee Rhiannon, who is going to become a member of the governing Labor/Greens alliance federally, is going to bring those views into this alliance," Liberal senator Mitch Fifield told The Australian. But Senator Fifield also dismissed Dr Emerson's attack on the Greens in light of the deal signed by Ms Gillard with Senator Brown last September to secure minority government. "The fact that Labor is prepared to be in a governing alliance with the Greens makes their denunciation of the (NSW) Greens' Israel boycott ring a little hollow," he said. Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop said Ms Rhiannon's comments were "extreme", "highly prejudicial" and "deeply troubling". She said that, in light of Ms Rhiannon's views, the Prime Minister needed to guarantee the Greens would not influence her government's foreign policy. "Given that the Greens do not support our alliance with the US either, the Prime Minister must guarantee the Greens will not influence Labor's foreign policy in the same way as they have influenced Labor's policy on a carbon tax," Ms Bishop said. A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd said last night: "Australia is firmly committed to Israel's security and fully recognises the significant security challenges Israel faces. "The Australian government has consistently supported a negotiated two-state solution to the Middle East peace process where Israel and a future Palestinian state live side by side in peace and security." Ms Rhiannon, who entered the NSW Legislative Council in March 1999 and is a former member of the Socialist Party of Australia, is one of four new Greens senators who will travel to Canberra in July. They will take the number of Greens in the upper house to nine, securing the party the balance of power and greater .... http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/bob-brown-told-to-rein-in-anti-israel-senator-lee-rhiannon/story-fn59niix-1226031644809

It's nice to agree on something for a change.
Lee Rhiannon is every caricature of the Greens rolled into 1, extremist nutbag.
The Tony Abbott of the Greens.

<It's nice to agree on something for a change.
Lee Rhiannon is every caricature of the Greens rolled into 1, extremist nutbag.
The Tony Abbott of the Greens.>

Who's agreeing with your statement smithy? Uncouple the remark about Tony Abbott and it's fine. But as usual you can't concede a point of common sense, in which you are sadly lacking, without grudgingly adding some unrelated slur.
You give a bad name to donkeys!

All we need now is for the Greens' number one apologist - Buzz - to come on here and assure us that they are not anti-semite.
But he seems to duck & weave on that one.

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 9:49am:

<It's nice to agree on something for a change. Lee Rhiannon is every caricature of the Greens rolled into 1, extremist nutbag. The Tony Abbott of the Greens.> Who's agreeing with your statement smithy? Uncouple the remark about Tony Abbott and it's fine. But as usual you can't concede a point of common sense, in which you are sadly lacking, without grudgingly adding some unrelated slur. You give a bad name to donkeys!

I was actually posting to sprint, I think that this is the 1st time we've found common ground.
As for the rest, your an Abbott supporter I expected nothing less than childish base insults.
Gunna call me a dole bludger next?
Or perhaps have a go at my ethnic origins?
What other positives has Tone put out there.........................hmmmm F@#K ALL it would seem.
It will be interesting to see your POV when this experiment is over.

Are you a dole bludger? Do you have some ethnic origin that requires comment?
Do tell.

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 9:58am:

Are you a dole bludger? Do you have some ethnic origin that requires comment? Do tell.

Since when are facts required?

Dsmithy70 wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 9:56am:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 1st, 2011 at 9:49am: <It's nice to agree on something for a change. Lee Rhiannon is every caricature of the Greens rolled into 1, extremist nutbag. The Tony Abbott of the Greens.> Who's agreeing with your statement smithy? Uncouple the remark about Tony Abbott and it's fine. But as usual you can't concede a point of common sense, in which you are sadly lacking, without grudgingly adding some unrelated slur. You give a bad name to donkeys! I was actually posting to sprint, I think that this is the 1st time we've found common ground. As for the rest, your an Abbott supporter I expected nothing less than childish base insults. Gunna call me a dole bludger next? Or perhaps have a go at my ethnic origins? What other positives has Tone put out there.........................hmmmm F@#K ALL it would seem. It will be interesting to see your POV when this experiment is over.

smithy - yes, must be close to the first time we have agreed.
Lets just keep quiet and hope noone notices :-)
Mum's the word

smithy - yes, must be close to the first time we have agreed.
Lets just keep quiet and hope noone notices
Mum's the word



Aha,  little Nichys have big ears,  I heard you.       ;)

BigOl64 wrote on Mar 31^st, 2011 at 7:08am:

I wonder how long the loons will last once those germans no longer have reliable power to cook up their saurerkraut and bratwurst.  ;D Nothing more than a knee jerk reaction founded on fear.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

mavisdavis wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 6:42am:

It`s abundantly clear to anyone with any cognitive ability at all that "Greens" generally are no more than a lazy, feel good party, living off the system and the environment that they so heroically profess to protect.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

Dsmithy70 wrote on Apr 1^st, 2011 at 10:02am:

bogarde73 wrote on Apr 1st, 2011 at 9:58am: Are you a dole bludger? Do you have some ethnic origin that requires comment? Do tell. Since when are facts required?

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.

STEVE CANNANE: But when I went back to Greg Hunt today, he said he defines 100 square kilometres as a hundred by a hundred, not 10 by 10.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :-[ :-X

Greg Hunt doesn't believe in facts!!!  :D :D ;D