In 2007 Labor saw "environment ignorance" as the perfect playground to pitch their election campaign tents - aka Kyoto and "greatest moral challenge"

Since then - the electorate sas wised up to the Greens movement as serving no other purpose than an opening to expel waste from the body

Labor knows it cannot win the next election - with or without preferences from the Greens. It should be a massacre

Preferences from the Greens will not cause more damage to Labor than it helps

Labor knows the carbon tax will be repealed.

So how do they reduce the damage?

Pin the Carbon Tax on the Greens

Attack the Greens as an extremist group

Hanson-Young's wild eyes infront of the camera does help the Greens' cause and neither does Milne's weaknesses as a leader.