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28 Oct 06:00am

Filed under: Asx, Bob Brown, Human Rights, Politics, Sarah Hanson Young, Singapore, The Greens

On Wednesday Bob Brown said two odd things that either proved he is some kind of political genius, or was the kind of rhetoric that sets the Greens up for a big fall in the future. My guess is it’s the former now but will be the latter later.

Just your run-of-the-mill political party.

The first was his apparent objection to the proposed merger of the Australian Stock Exchange with the Singaporean Exchange.

The crux of his opposition was that Singapore had executed the young Australian Van Nguyen for drug trafficking in 2005, and this was a militaristic non-democratic state that we should be careful about handing over our stock exchange to.

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Helen says:

10:25am | 01/11/10

Jim - sounds like you’re talking about the good old days before neoliberalism, “downsizing”, outsourcing and endless “productivity gains” (i.e. longer hours), right? Read more »
Andrew says:

08:15am | 30/10/10

PC is killing free speech? Really? You’re sure it’s not just other people using their freedom of speech to tell other people they might be unintentionally causing offence rather than some great catastrope a la Mao’s Cultural Revolution where anyone who uses an ethnonym with fewer than 17 syllables gets… Read more »

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