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Whether she likes it or nyet, Lee Rhiannon was a Stalinist

26 Aug 05:30am

Filed under: Greens, Lee Rhiannon, Nsw Greens, Senate, Soviet Unions, Stalinism

It is customary for new Members and Senators to use part of their first speech to give some account of their careers before their election. Despite my entreaties that new Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon address her past, she used the usual dodge of whinging that critics were reviving a ‘new McCarthyism’.

Comrade Rhiannonski promotes her five-year plan for pig iron production at a fete in Glebe. Photo: Ella Pellegrini

Prior to her speech, there has been a battle going on at Wikipedia about her political history. Ever since April a number of people have been trying to write a full, honest and properly referenced account of Senator Rhiannon’s political career prior to 1990 when she joined the Greens. All those efforts have been thwarted by a person called Chris Maltby, who has systematically deleted her political history prior to 1990, by suppressing any version of the Wikipedia article which might be embarrassing to Senator Rhiannon.

So what are the facts about Senator Rhiannon’s past that the NSW Greens and Mr Maltby are so keen to stop you reading?

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Oswald Brunner says:

07:27pm | 13/10/11

What the rabid socialists ignore, deliberately as it nagates all ofa their ideolofies, is that there have been numerous experiments with the socialist economic theory over the centuries. Yes, it is an acient philosophy updated from time to time.. Everyone of them has been economic and social failure, Russia revamped… Read more »
Disraeli says:

10:56pm | 28/08/11

You are as entitled to your opinion as I to mine. The import of your words was and remains plain. You can attempt to dress up innuendo as principle. Don’t expect others to roll over for such pretensions. Utterly unmoved by debating tricks, by the patronising remark about principle, and… Read more »

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