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Why the Greens should never be in power
Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:06am
 
•The Ballina and Lismore areas have more than 32,000 residents on welfare
•That figure includes 14,000 people on the Newstart allowance
•The unemployment rate in the Richmond-Tweed region is 10.2 per cent
•The region’s youth unemployment rate is listed at 15.8 per cent


IT’S not easy being Green, even in the hippie haven of northern NSW. 
 
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Nimbin and Lismore, home of the Australian Hemp Party and new Greens’ heartland, have one of the highest rates of welfare recipients in the state.

The north coast region, where the Greens claimed a historic win in Ballina and came close to taking Lismore at the weekend election, has more than 32,000 residents on welfare, including 14,000 on the Newstart allowance.

The unemployment rate in the Richmond-Tweed region, which includes Nimbin, is a whopping 10.2 per cent, compared to 6.6 per cent in Parramatta in Sydney’s west. The Department of Employment lists the region’s youth unemployment rate at 15.8 per cent.

If the Greens lose Lismore, where their candidate Adam Guise was last night trailing Nationals incumbent Thomas George by 252 votes, it could ironically be linked to the number of apathetic locals who are not registered to vote.

While the Nimbin booth traditionally registers a high Greens vote, The Daily Telegraph has learned many residents living in the hills around Nimbin and Uki were not registered and failed to vote for the anti-CSG activist.

“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said. A non-voter said: “Nimbin is already the greenest area of Australia.”

Other Greens supporters who moved to the north coast said they were registered in other states and ineligible to vote despite having lived in the region for years.

Greens candidate Tamara Smith, who cleaned-up in the historically green Byron Shire region, yesterday looked set to claim Ballina. Outgoing MP Don Page had held the seat for the ­Nationals since 1988.

Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham has dismissed the idea of the “hippie” and “tree hugger” vote being behind the party’s popularity in the north.

As well as apparent voter apathy, the north coast – once a thriving farming and fishing hub – is home to the country’s worst immunisation rates and anti-fluoride activists.

It is also over-represented in annual drug statistics ­released by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

The National Health Performance Authority last year listed the NSW north coast as having the worst immunisation rates in Australia.

In Byron Shire, only 66.7 per cent of children aged five were fully immunised.

NSW Police targets the region through annual cannabis eradication programs unearthing massive marijuana crops.

An ice and speed syndicate allegedly linked to the Ballina Rebels was smashed by local police last December, and LSD and MDMA have also been targeted.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/welfare-weed-and-crime-flourish-in-gre...
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Re: Why the Greens should never be in power
Reply #1 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:10am
 
You mean, like the wrongfully convicted... the unemployed/social security recipients - who in the main are those who are doing it tough and have probably the most grievances...... are supposed to have no voice?

Only scum who forfeit all rights by accepting their justified payments?

No wonder this country is up in arms.... hidden but growing...
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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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Reply #2 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:19am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:10am:
You mean, like the wrongfully convicted... the unemployed/social security recipients - who in the main are those who are doing it tough and have probably the most grievances...... are supposed to have no voice?

Only scum who forfeit all rights by accepting their justified payments?

No wonder this country is up in arms.... hidden but growing...


Who's wrongfully convicted? Of what?
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Reply #3 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:20am
 
I suspected as much.
the fertile farmland of Australia is a national treasure, in the same way as the barrier reef is a national treasure.

we need exclusion zones and only the caretakers of this wonderful productive foodbowl should be allowed access.

you wouldn't let bikie gangs and ice addicts go and set up communes on the barrier reef islands .

it is too important to our future.

can we please move all people out of rural electorates when their natural habitat is the big city. they don't belong there and it is a delicate ecosystem.

northern NSW is probably one of the most pristine areas on earth.
we don't need it polluted with drugs, crime and dysfunctional people.
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Reply #4 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:22am
 
Not a crime to be unemployed
Not a crime to vote.



Obviously the hard right have sat up and got very scared of The Greens very successful NSW campaign.


Well done Greens
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Reply #5 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:27am
 
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:22am:
Not a crime to be unemployed
Not a crime to vote.



Obviously the hard right have sat up and got very scared of The Greens very successful NSW campaign.


Well done Greens


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“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said.


Are you daft? You must be. The idiotic woman was a non-voter, not a voter! By the way, it is a crime not to vote.
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Reply #6 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:35am
 
Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:27am:
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:22am:
Not a crime to be unemployed
Not a crime to vote.



Obviously the hard right have sat up and got very scared of The Greens very successful NSW campaign.


Well done Greens


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“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said.


Are you daft? You must be. The idiotic woman was a non-voter, not a voter! By the way, it is a crime not to vote.



The whole article is a straw man argument because the hard right paper wanted to throw it's faeces at the Greens.

A women, which women?
The whole article could be a fabrication interweaved with unconnected facts.


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Reply #7 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:40am
 
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:35am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:27am:
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:22am:
Not a crime to be unemployed
Not a crime to vote.



Obviously the hard right have sat up and got very scared of The Greens very successful NSW campaign.


Well done Greens


Quote:
“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said.


Are you daft? You must be. The idiotic woman was a non-voter, not a voter! By the way, it is a crime not to vote.



The whole article is a straw man argument because the hard right paper wanted to throw it's faeces at the Greens.

A women, which women?
The whole article could be a fabrication interweaved with unconnected facts.




Really? You're disputing ABS statistical facts and pictures showing marijuana festivals in Nimbin?

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Reply #8 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:50am
 
Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:40am:
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:35am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:27am:
____ wrote on Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:22am:
Not a crime to be unemployed
Not a crime to vote.



Obviously the hard right have sat up and got very scared of The Greens very successful NSW campaign.


Well done Greens


Quote:
“Why would we vote? Voting is for mugs and sellouts,” a local woman said.


Are you daft? You must be. The idiotic woman was a non-voter, not a voter! By the way, it is a crime not to vote.



The whole article is a straw man argument because the hard right paper wanted to throw it's faeces at the Greens.

A women, which women?
The whole article could be a fabrication interweaved with unconnected facts.




Really? You're disputing ABS statistical facts and pictures showing marijuana festivals in Nimbin?

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2015/03/31/1227286/885252-2b724a02-d771-11e...


'interwoven with unconnected facts'


Who is the women that you have placed all of your non existent credibility on.

Can you name her?
Can you prove she exists?
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Reply #9 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:51am
 
People elsewhere use marijuana too, and they don't all vote Green. Or Labor.

Most people don't cast their vote based upon whether or not they use cannabis.
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Reply #10 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 7:58am
 
Suck it up, leftards.

That’s what the Tele calls news.
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Reply #11 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 8:02am
 
Or it could be their token april fools article ... and they caught teaspoon with it.
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Reply #12 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 8:16am
 
"Hey Joe Hockey There's a broom in your hand!"

"Got You, You big April Fool"

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Reply #13 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 8:16am
 
farming families , like aboriginal families have a connection with the land. many have farmed an area for 5 or 6 generations.

things like marjuhana festivals should never be allowed on agricultural sacred sites.
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Reply #14 - Apr 1st, 2015 at 8:26am
 
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The Daily Telegraph can reveal Nimbin and Lismore, home of the Australian Hemp........



The Telegraph should act more like a political commentator and less like a political participant.

They seem to spend a lot of time undermining their credibility by trying to sell their own twisted political view.


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