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Looks even worse when you consider the ALP National Platform 2023
ALP National Platform is supposed to be binding on its parliamentary members.
Fun and games.
Fun and games.
Parliament is sitting this week.
He might not need to come out of hiding... Albanese was on ABC News radio this morning blaming the Greens for the cluster f*** he has on his hands...
While this move might appease the caucus, it's keeping it the media longer than needed and isn't a great look to those outside of the Canberra chambers.
Getting suspended indefinitely means she either backs down and says she'll vote with Labor MPs on Palestine in future or she gets expelled. I can't see either side backing down at this point, they'd look weak.
Labor don't like their MPs having their own brain and values. They want mindless party drones.
They all do.
Its not party politics if they all vote on issues based on what they individually think.
You know full well that the Coalition (and Greens for that matter) permit crossing the floor without the threat of disendorsement. Labor does not. That's the difference.
Are you able to provide an example of a Greens Party MP crossing the floor without further consequence? I am asking out of genuine ignorance: I can't remember one.
As of April 2019 it hadn't occurred, and I can't think of an example in recent history for the Greens, so I'd say the answer is no.
Crossing the floor in the federal parliament 1950–April 2019
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I can't remember one either, but I've never heard of a rule existing within the party that is similar to the Labor one. I've certainly seen Greens representatives quit the party over internal disagreements, like Lidia Thorpe and Justin Field, but they didn't formally cross the floor and they weren't expelled.
I'm not sure if the Greens Party rules are even publicly available. I would suggest that based on exposed information they look upon crossing the floor very dimly indeed.
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precisely. party solidarity has its place but so do peeps who have deeply held personal views. albo is likely to lose a good person with solid values.
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yes, yes, a thousand times yes. ram it up albo.
There is the small matter that opposing the Israel Lobby is political suicide.
It is all good and well to attack Labor for not taking a harder stance, but that ignores Dutton falling into line immediately behind the Israel Lobby "yes sir, no sir" style completely in opposition to stated Australian Policy.
Again this all comes back to a completely biased and non-functional media. When the media is nothing more than the communications arm of one side of politics and will not even support stated Australian Policy then what chance does Labor have to swim against the tide.
And on top of that this whole thing is nothing more than a Greens stunt that can only benefit the Liberals. How can anyone take The Greens seriously when they are playing the exact same stupid political games the big two play.
Democracy in Australia is a joke.
And there are currently 3 jewish Labor members in federal parliament - what happens when they cross the floor?
Other than Newscorp having a field day?
Well the cost of that problem is a Dutton government.
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you've mistaken me for someone that argument works on
if the cost of criticsing labor for doing what the coalition is doing is the coalition I don't see that as democracy or even a problem
people don't say that the other way, that criticisng the coalition will lead to a labor government
why would I give a shit
Labor are refusing to enact their own national platform and are punishing a senator that voted based on it
and you think the problem is we might get Dutton?
lol
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Good.
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