With the Labor Party imploding, The Greens either step up to the plate or the nation slides into a conservative train wreck with Abbot as the cheif engineer and Bob Katter and Gina Reinhardt as the chief stoker and fat controller.

Desparate times call for clear action.

And they rode to town on a donkey

“The Australian Labor Party is associated with the carbon tax and with these nutty fruity ideas …

“The Labor Party was a good, proper organisation, a decent organisation. But the trouble is, as a motor vehicle it looks great but when you lift up the bonnet there is a little green donkey in there.”

Senator Barnaby Joyce, Nationals Senate Leader,
Monday March 26 2012, Radio National Breakfast

Right now , the little green donkey is about to discard the dilapidated carcass of the ALP and release its inner dragon. That dragong will successfully and wisely govern a post-materialist, resource-constrained future.

What might that look like?

In The hour is come Geoff Ebbs describes a re-imagined Australia with new cities in the norht and west, zero emission steel mills and real economic integration with South East Aisia and the Middle East. Are the Greens up to it?

The hour is come is part of a larger article. If this article inspires you, download the fuill article or read the six parts online:

• Green gold
• Redneck Rage
• Rusted on Reds
• Clear directions
• Sidebar - Red herrings
• Sidebar - Greenslanders? Not!

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