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How political has Victoria’s Governor become? Here’s David de Kretser launching a manifesto by David Spratt demanding the economy be put on a war footing to fight global warming. Towards the end, he notes and apparently endorses, this manifesto’s suggestion that what’s held us to “slow progress†in tackling global warming is “democratic systems of government, with elections...†(The tape cuts out at this point.) The clear inference is that our system of government leaves us dangerously exposed to what de Kretser claims is the “greatest problem confronting mankind†and a “state of emergencyâ€. What are you then led to conclude about democracy - this system of government of ours that de Kretser has actually sworn (and been paid) to uphold? The fact is that de Kretser’s naked politicking and radical green preaching has caused concern for at least a year. I repeat what I said yesterday: the Governor, meant to be a bipartisan and politically neutral figure. If he insists on playing politics, especially out among the radical Left, he must resign. UPDATE Yesterday I wrote that the Climate Emergency Network that’s helping to run the protest at which de Kretser will speak on Sunday had among its members Socialist Alliance, Resistance, Solidarity, Greenpeace, Socialist Alternative and Rising Tide. An apparent CEN spokesman wrote to the Herald Sun denying any of these groups were CEN members, And yesterday afternoon CEN removed from its web site a page which actually listed every one of those organisations.as “CEN member groupsâ€. The cache is here. I’d appreciate the advice of any readers who know how to preserve such evidence. I suspect there will be an effort to deny that de Kretser’s event on Sunday will have any links to Marxist groups, and that there will similar airbrushing of the records. Burt Resistance and the Socialist Alliance have also been active with Climate Emergency Queensland, and Socialist Alliance joined the Climate Emergency Network in a joint endorsement of a Climate Emergency protest in Melbourne in 2008. Moreover, David Spratt, whose book CEN was formed to support and which de Kretser launched (above), was once spokesman of the Victorian Peace Movement, which campaigned against the Iraq war, and, llike the CEN, held â€convergencesâ€. The Victorian Peace Movement, too, had a long list of affliliates which once more gave cover to the far-Left radicals in the ranks, such as Socialist Alliance, Resistance, the Socialist Party, Victorian Greens, the Democratic Socialist Party, the Committee for Workers Against Imperialism and socialist fronts like the Refugee Action Collective. A friend of Spratt notes he has been a long-time activist connected to Trades Hall, the Socialist Left and more recently the Greens. He was a member of the hard-line Pledge faction of Labor’s Left and editor of its newspaper.
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