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Green Party seen as major victor in Australian elections

By Alliance Alert

MercatorNet: "Expectations of stable majority government in Australia have been scuppered by a remarkable 'Greenslide' in Saturday?s national election. Neither the Labor government nor the conservative coalition won a clear majority, so it is not clear who will be leading the country ? the incumbent Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, or the Liberal leader Tony Abbott . . . If there is an intellectual inspiration for the movement, it is the Australian philosopher Peter Singer, a theorist for the animal rights movement and a radical utilitarian who supports voluntary euthanasia and infanticide for disabled infants. Singer was one of the founding members of the national Greens and in 1996 he even ran unsuccessfully for the Senate as a Green candidate. He co-authored a book on the Green movement with Bob Brown."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 24, 2010 (boomark / email).