*Ø* Green Brown hits back

Vote Greens in the Australian federal election. If only to give John Anderson apoplexy.

"THE coalition was mounting a 'Greens under the bed' scare campaign to distract voters from its own shortcomings, Australian Greens senator Bob Brown said tonight.

"Senator Brown said a new round of attacks from the government, spearheaded by Nationals leader John Anderson, would simply fail and drive voters to the Greens. Mr Anderson, campaigning in the marginal Nationals' seat of Page in northern New South Wales today, said supporters of the Greens would have been members of the Communist Party in the 1950s. [Emphasis mine]

"He said the Greens were like a watermelon - green on the outside but red on the inside.

"But Senator Brown said the Greens were more like avocados - green on the inside and outside.
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He said when it came to links with communist organisations, it was the coalition government in bed with the reds.

"'This government cosies up with the biggest communist regime in the world - Beijing,' he said.

"'I've been trying to get out monks and nuns locked up in Tibet who are on the political right, and that's being done by the Chinese.

"'If John Anderson wanted to set up the National Party in China he'd be arrested as soon as he got there.'"
Souce: Herald Sun

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