To the primary main political interview of the day, and Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has taken questions on the ABC’s RN Breakfast.
She was requested about Paul Keating’s current feedback concerning her social gathering.
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.Credit score:Dominic Lorrimer
In case you missed David Crowe’s story, right here’s what the previous PM needed to say after Greens chief Adam Bandt accused Labor of being a right-wing neoliberal social gathering:
The Greens preen themselves on what they declare is their environmental credentials. [But] this is similar outfit that, with all function, destroyed Kevin Rudd’s carbon air pollution discount scheme, main the nation right into a decades-long political morass on local weather, placing the inhabitants and the nation’s land mass in danger and degradation.
The Labor Occasion is the first atmosphere social gathering of Australia and all the time has been.
Right here’s what Faruqi, a senator for NSW, needed to say in response:
With respect to Mr Keating, I feel he’s residing in a fantasy land if he thinks that Labor is the first atmosphere social gathering of Australia.
There’s [also] little question that over the past three or 4 a long time, Labor have adopted neoliberalism. We take a look at the dismantling of free schooling … the privatisation and, extra not too long ago, their embrace of tax cuts for the rich. So, sadly, there’s loads of proof there about what Adam stated concerning the Labor Occasion.
