"What we've seen here is a government that recognises that just because you don't sit on a side on the government's side doesn't mean that your community's voice doesn't matter. "That may be the case but any government that seeks to lead the nation needs to take its people with it. "The comment you just made was that the government doesn't need my vote as a crossbencher to get this legislation through," Tink said. She also was quick to "reframe" a question being put to the crossbenchers.
Tink said it should be the "planning" that starts now and that politicians across the political aisle needed to work together, rather than fight. You only had to hear Kylea Tink to get a sense that conventional political thinking is the last thing on her mind.Īfter a journalist quoted the Greens saying the "fight" was just beginning to force the government to be more ambitious, she argued that was the wrong approach. Yet to just view this in purely political win-loss metrics perhaps misunderstands both the election and broader political movement.Īnne Aly happily entertained Lisa Chesters' son Charlie during the climate change debate. It's why Bandt could be forgiven if he was frustrated that the teals were attracting the credit at their press conference for what was, in fact, a gift his party had given the government.
It was the Greens who delivered Labor the votes it needed, or at least will when the Senate considers the laws later this year. The teal amendments didn't require the government to add anything it didn't want to. Labor knows that if the teals succeed, it all but consigns the Coalition to the opposition benches. What was at play was pure political maths. "Teals get a win and we get a win" is how one in Labor dubbed it. Labor, once the legislation passes the Senate, will have enshrined laws in a policy area fraught with toppling prime ministers.īandt too has done what former leaders of his party baulked at.Īrguably, he's transforming the Greens from a movement to a political party by adopting a pragmatic approach that gets something, even if it's not as much as his party might have wanted.Īnd the teals were successful in making minor amendments, ensuring they could go back to their communities selling a win.īut suggestions that Australian politics has been radically changed since the election are certainly premature. In many ways, Labor and the crossbench have plenty to celebrate after this week. ( ABC News: Nick Haggarty) Pure political maths
In the wake of Catalonia’s recent independence referendum, Corsican nationalists have downplayed any ambitions for secession, saying the island lacked the demographic and economic clout of the Spanish region.Ĭorsica has a population of just 320,000 people and a tiny 8.6 billion euro ($10.2 bln) economy.Zali Steggall is proving a mentor for the teal independents who have followed her into parliament. In a vote on Sunday for a newly created local assembly, the Pe a Corsica (For Corsica), an alliance of the two main nationalist parties, won 45.36 percent of the ballot, putting it in a commanding position for the second round vote on Dec.
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The nationalists - split between those who seek greater autonomy and those who see full independence from France as the end-game - emerged as Corsica’s main political force for the first time in French regional elections in December 2015.
AJACCIO, France (Reuters) - Corsican nationalists on Monday demanded the French government enter into negotiations over greater autonomy for the Mediterranean island after they won almost half the votes in a local election.
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