tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596568815628862090.post3990950816200380901..comments2022-03-24T20:50:14.092+11:00Comments on CXLI: Labor and the Greens: History repeating?czaxxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03282214302249849961noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596568815628862090.post-7872163054338385832012-07-15T22:49:49.985+10:002012-07-15T22:49:49.985+10:00Yes, you're right. I'm conflating two elec...Yes, you're right. I'm conflating two elections there - I put my flaky memory of that era down to all that time spent in the uni bar at that time and the fact that the Groom government was eminently forgetable :). Thanks for the correction.czaxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03282214302249849961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596568815628862090.post-8477913493884434202012-07-15T20:20:56.963+10:002012-07-15T20:20:56.963+10:00(The Howard Government's RFA did cause a lot o...(The Howard Government's RFA did cause a lot of friction in the 1996-98 parliament, though.)Mathewhttp://ireckon.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596568815628862090.post-44398041137633574262012-07-15T20:18:37.630+10:002012-07-15T20:18:37.630+10:00Those final three points do sound very similar. Fo...Those final three points do sound very similar. For a decade it has felt like the relationship between the Greens and the federal electorate, and their relationship with other federal parties, is twenty years behind the Tasmanian experience.<br /><br />Just a correction - although the final straw in 1992 was related to forest resource security, it had nothing to do with the Howard Government (which was elected in 1996). <br /><br />Ray Groom's Liberals won the 1992 election with a majority, but in 1996 lost this majority and Tony Rundle led a minority Liberal Government until 1998 (the election at which the HoA was cut to twenty-five members).Mathewhttp://ireckon.netnoreply@blogger.com