It takes some Orwellian chutzpah to label the Greens NSW anti-democratic. That hasn鈥檛 stopped anti-socialist Greens MPs Jeremy Buckingham, Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field from doing just that.
Left Renewal
So the Greens鈥 electoral support has stalled at about聽10% and the leadership of Richard di Natale is being questioned. This 鈥渄ire鈥 situation, according to Bob Brown and others, is the result of the 鈥渨recking鈥 presence in the Greens鈥 ranks of leftish Senator Lee Rhiannon and the founding of Left Renewal by radical Young Greens in NSW.
鈥淩ichard Di Natale, I am a member of Left Renewal and I hope you can hear this because the Greens are my party too,鈥 a woman said to great applause at a meeting of (LR) on January 25.
More than 100 people, including from Newcastle and Wollongong, came to the first public meeting of LR, an anti-capitalist grouping within The Greens, to hear about its aims and objectives.
So now former Greens parliamentary leader Christine Milne has come out of political retirement to invite 鈥 via the pages of 鈥 the young lefties in the Greens NSW who have formed "Left Renewal" to leave the building and establish their own party.