Rubbish comparison to the DLP here. The DLP were a right-wing splinter group of the ALP.
The Greens are consistently to the left of the ALP.
http://www.tanyaplibersek.com/speech_the_mckell_institute_the_progressives_case_for_labor_wednesday_15_june
Monday 27 June 2016
Sunday 7 February 2016
Saturday 10 October 2015
Open letter to Tanya Plibersek regarding WestConnex
Recently Tanya weighed in on the WestConnex debate with a post on her website. What follows below is WestCONnex Direct Action's response.
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Tanya, your emphasis on Newtown suggests that the problem is isolated. It's not. The whole project is wrong. It's the central idea of radial motorways into urban centers that needs to be challenged.
Back in 1980, Neville Wran commissioned the Kyeemagh-Chullora road inquiry which concluded as much. You can see an interview with Justice Kirby here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zL7h2jh-g
Similar studies and experts will tell you the same thing.
By stating "As it stands, WestConnex cannot and should not proceed" you leave open the possibility that WestConnex should proceed in a modified form. Well, that is just a restatement of Labor policy. That policy merely removes stage 3 of the motorway but leaves the M4 and M5 extensions intact. In fact the ALP supports running the M4 all the way into the CBD which is absurd. The approximate cost would probably be only a little less than the current $15 billion. Let's not forget it was Julia Gillard who first funded WestConnex when she did her listening tour of western Sydney:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/pm-julia-gillard-pledges-1bn-for-westconnex-project/story-fngr8i5s-1226590150180
It's clear you are not deviating from the party line, in contrast to Jo Haylen or Linda Scott.
You say "Public transport must be a major and integrated part of any infrastructure strategy." That is a total apple-pie statement that no-one would disagree with. The point is to back it up by opposing WestConnex and putting up a detailed public transport alternative, such as community groups like Ecotransit have done. Labor's recent big announcement of federal support for public transport should have included this.
Finally, you deflect attention from Federal support of WestConnex by urging the community to lobby State government. Although clearly State Government plays a major role, it's what you are doing at the Federal level that we are interested to know.
Labor should support the withdrawal of all federal funds for WestConnex and campaign actively against the whole project, particularly in the senate where cross-bench support may get a majority. Labor electoral success in inner Sydney will depend on it.
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Tanya, your emphasis on Newtown suggests that the problem is isolated. It's not. The whole project is wrong. It's the central idea of radial motorways into urban centers that needs to be challenged.
Back in 1980, Neville Wran commissioned the Kyeemagh-Chullora road inquiry which concluded as much. You can see an interview with Justice Kirby here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16zL7h2jh-g
Similar studies and experts will tell you the same thing.
By stating "As it stands, WestConnex cannot and should not proceed" you leave open the possibility that WestConnex should proceed in a modified form. Well, that is just a restatement of Labor policy. That policy merely removes stage 3 of the motorway but leaves the M4 and M5 extensions intact. In fact the ALP supports running the M4 all the way into the CBD which is absurd. The approximate cost would probably be only a little less than the current $15 billion. Let's not forget it was Julia Gillard who first funded WestConnex when she did her listening tour of western Sydney:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/pm-julia-gillard-pledges-1bn-for-westconnex-project/story-fngr8i5s-1226590150180
It's clear you are not deviating from the party line, in contrast to Jo Haylen or Linda Scott.
You say "Public transport must be a major and integrated part of any infrastructure strategy." That is a total apple-pie statement that no-one would disagree with. The point is to back it up by opposing WestConnex and putting up a detailed public transport alternative, such as community groups like Ecotransit have done. Labor's recent big announcement of federal support for public transport should have included this.
Finally, you deflect attention from Federal support of WestConnex by urging the community to lobby State government. Although clearly State Government plays a major role, it's what you are doing at the Federal level that we are interested to know.
Labor should support the withdrawal of all federal funds for WestConnex and campaign actively against the whole project, particularly in the senate where cross-bench support may get a majority. Labor electoral success in inner Sydney will depend on it.
Wednesday 30 September 2015
Friday 4 September 2015
Tanya's gradual march to the right
This is a detailed article by Michael Brull about the various positions on foreign affairs Tanya has taken over the course of her parliamentary career.
https://newmatilda.com//2015/09/03/tanya-pliberseks-foreign-policy-evolution-idealistic-alp-firebrand-cynical-apparatchik
https://newmatilda.com//2015/09/03/tanya-pliberseks-foreign-policy-evolution-idealistic-alp-firebrand-cynical-apparatchik
Saturday 27 June 2015
Mandatory detention & offshore processing
It is long standing Labor policy since Keating to support mandatory detention of asylum seekers and Tanya supports this.
Further this week there was discovered to be a legal loophole in offshore processing that could make it illegal. Labor and Tanya quickly made an amendment that would allow it to continue:
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Blog rationale
I decided to set up this blog to look at the various policy positions Tanya Plibersek has taken in federal politics.
Tanya is deputy leader of the federal Labor party and is sometimes talked about as a potential future leader of the party, possibly prime minister.
Given her importance, my interest in politics, and the fact that I live in her electorate it seemed like a good idea to set up this blog.
My goal is to be as dispassionate as possible. I have no interest in personal matters and consider them to be irrelevant, other than to say that I have met Tanya briefly on a few occasions and consider her to be a kind and considerate person.
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