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Former PM John Howard has labelled the Greens extremist and said the “mob” of voters can see through treasurer Jim Chalmers trying to distance himself from the RBA.
Speaking at a Liberal party fundraiser, in part for the federal seat of Sturt in SA, where Liberal moderate James Stevens faces a strong Greens challenge, Howard called on the major parties to put them last.
Both the major parties should put the Greens last because they’re extremists. They have got extreme positions on foreign policy, extreme positions on economic policy, extreme positions on social policy. Who knows what some of their social views are. They’re so extreme.
Not only do I call on Labor to put the Greens last but I will really dump on any Liberal division that tries to do some preference deal in an individual seat with the Greens. You have got to put them last. We have to make sure it’s a majority government.
It’s pathetic. It looks so transparently political. The mob, the public, see through those games.
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