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If he finds enough evidence yes. 'References' is a vague term and he tends to come up with other people making the same unsubstantiated comments as him and pretending that is evidence. The point is not about Greens doing preference deals. Of course they do that. They are a political party. The claim I would like to see evidence for is that 'greenies' prevent sound forest management policies from being implemented.

The nature of the evidence presented so far is cirumstantial. It is also very second hand. I find it hard to believe there would be a strong enough 'green' movement preventing effective fire management, but not a single environmental organisation whose policies reflect this.

So you are not going to accept circumstantial evidence?

Note there a moves afoot to sue the government over inaffective fire management.

LABOR has lost its chance of securing Family First preferences after moving to stitch up a deal with the Greens.

Greens leader Bob Brown yesterday said a deal to swap preferences with Labor in all states except Tasmania was close to being finalised.

"We're working very hard and we're coming very close to getting a preference arrangement for a swap with the Labor Party," Senator Brown said.

"It virtually hands the Greens the balance of power in the Senate and control of everything that happens in Australia, which is horrifying," he said.

Senator Fielding said Family First was willing to do a preference deal with the major parties, but Labor walked away from negotiations because they preferred the Greens.

Australian Greens leader Bob Brown says his party is moving towards a deal which would see Labor give preferences to the Greens in the Senate.

However, he says it is the first time the Greens in Tasmania will not be directing preferences to either Labor or the Liberals because of both parties' support for the pulp mill and old-growth logging.

Senator Abetz, the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, says voters should remember Tasmania's Labor-Green accord.

"People left the state, investment collapsed, the young people lost confidence in Tasmania and they went to the mainland," he said.

"If that were to happen Australia-wide people would have to leave the country and that's not the sort of future I want for Australia."

But Senator Brown has dismissed the reference to the accord, which Senator Abetz says saw unemployment skyrocket and investment collapse, saying the Greens have alternatives.

Greens / Labor deal - cut BMW tax, increase Aussie cars tax

“And the fact that Labor have signed up to this deal with the Greens demonstrates that all Mr Rudd’s rhetoric about being interested in the car industry is vacuous spin.

THE Greens yesterday recommended that their voters give preferences to Labor candidates in 24 marginal seats, virtually gifting the state election to Premier Morris Iemma.

The deal is bound to cause widespread anger in Green ranks where there is massive opposition to Labor's $2 billion desalination plant and pro-developer policies.

New Green-Labor accord?
7 November 1995
By Ben Courtice HOBART -- Some members of the state Labor Opposition want to leave open the option of entering a new alliance with the Green Party after the next state election, due in February 1996. However, Opposition leader Michael Field insists he will make no such deal. This has revived the debate about the Green-Labor accord formed in 1989 when the Greens won five seats and Labor 13 out of a house of 35. In return for promises by Labor to save some wilderness areas, the Greens supported a harsh budget which included health and education cuts. The accord finally broke down when Labor introduced resource security legislation to ensure access to natural resources for mining and logging companies. However, the Greens had already tarnished their public image and they suffered a large drop in their vote in the 1992 elections, which were won by the Liberals. While Field has stated that Labor's policy is to govern in its own right or not at all, former state ALP president Leo Brown has said that Labor might rethink its policy towards the Greens if the electorate rejects the Liberals at the next elections. This is probably because recent polls show the Greens attracting around 16% support around the state and 22% in the south. It looks likely that they will retain their five seats, and possibly gain second seats in the electorates of Denison and Franklin.

yawn....  you'll need more time than I've got to find the itsy bitsy details fd...

If you want to see the effect of G policy look at the ACT.  Remember those fires.  I guess not.

Like I said do your own research.  I'm not sitting here all day to do your work for you.