There is a real difference between the Greens and Labor as I have pointed out previously but it seems that Labor isn’t sure what it is …
“The type of positions that the Greens take on the IMF and the WTO; my union the AMWU wrote those policies and they plagiarised them so why should we attack them on decent policy?” Said Senator Cameron, a former head of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union.
Meanwhile, John Graham, from the party’s Left, said …
“I welcome the recognition that this (… the rise of the Greens …) is a serious threat, but these Greens voters we’re trying to persuade, imagine them, full of hope, desperately many of them wanting Labor to be just a bit better.“
And the difference between that and reality is the difference between just a bit and a hell of a lot …