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| Subject: Toxic OZschwitz Greens stay silent after abject elections Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:39 pm | |
| It was surprising how little was made about the meltdown in the Greens vote in statewide local elections held in NSW over the weekend.
I kept waiting for this shoe to drop but it never did.
In my local government area, Woollahra Council, the erosion was significant for the party of David Shoebridge, the most high-profile Greens member of the NSW Parliament, whose political base was there.
The swing against the Greens in the Woollahra area was a whopping 12 per cent. The Greens won just 11.5 per cent of the vote despite Labor being almost invisible.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/greens-stay-silent-after-abject-elections-20120912-25sn8.html#ixzz26IXCJ4Ne
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