Reply #27: sorry to burst your bubble guys

[Djinn]

but Garrett was courted and wooed by the ALP is order to NEUTRALISE him. He was close to signing up for the Greens and would have been an obvious choice to replace Bob Brown as leader eventually. Given the Greens are likely to hold the balance of power in the next senate, he could have had FAR more influence as a Green than toeing the ALP line.

Garrett has already made embarrassing compromises on nukes, Tamar Valley pulp mill and forestry. Almost every single environmental issue he'll deal with has an old lyric waiting in the wing to make a big hypocrite of him.

At best he should have been a Parliamentary Sec until he gained some Parliamentary experience (seriously folks Greg Combet and Bill Shoerten's prior exp is far more suited to a Minsitry position and they have to wait out their apprenticeship - why not Garrett?) and should NEVER have been given environment.