Do the Greens ever learn anything from history? All change is difficult, big change is very difficult, especially when a referendum is involved.
To effect critical environmental and energy policy reform this progressive Labor government has to stay in majority power for a number of terms. To ensure the Coalition can’t wreck it again, radical minor parties can’t impose unrealistic demands, the lights must stay on, we must be able to pay for it and Aussie voters must not drown in massive energy bills.
Failure to achieve any of these policy areas could be terminal, as powerful, well-financed conservative forces will fight to stop it. John Howard was able to take this country so far to the right and enact so many discriminatory policies that hurt so many Aussies because he managed to stay there for four terms.
If the Greens have learnt anything from their disastrous decision back in 2009 to block Kevin Rudd’s CPRS in the Senate, which ultimately gave rise to Tony Abbott, Adam Bandt must rein in radical elements within the Greens, led by that disruptive and disrespectful ‘show pony’ Lidia Thorpe, who are recklessly threatening to derail the history-making referendum on the ‘Voice’ by insisting a treaty be negotiated first; that will only make it even more difficult to pass.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
