JANET Albrechtsen is correct in her comments regarding the Greens ("Greens are losing their voters as their agenda is exposed", 16/1).
Every person has a right to disagree with the activities of a company or an individual, whether it is on environmental, ethical, or other grounds.
But there are legal ways to protest. In sanctioning the economic vandalism of Jonathan Moylan on the Whitehaven Coal shares issue, the Greens have shown not only that they have ulterior motives, but also that they are still a protest movement rather than a responsible political party. Rather than using reason to positively put their case, the Greens are trying to silence valid criticism with abusive terms such as "hate media", and support illegal activity as long as it fits their anti-progress agenda. Such behaviour should be anathema to responsible politicians in a free and democratic country.
Andrew Weeks, Renmark, SA
JANET Albrechtsen's article was straight out of the 1960s conservative-style diatribe against hippies. Albrechtsen ensures that the group she despises so much will only prosper if that's the best she and her ilk can do. When you sink to name-calling with terms like "long-haired" and "tent-dwelling" then you know the rest will just fade into sleepy insignificance. To Albrechtsen, investors are still "mum and dad" and the Greens are "dangerous".
I have known Christine Milne for many years and she always dressed conservatively because that's the way she is. For Albrechtsen to infer Milne cloaks herself in some sort of conservative attire to disguise a radical stance is far-fetched.
History shows that young activists are always sneered at for the way they dress by old conservatives and Albrechtsen's argument shows that how people present themselves will always be used to evade the real debate. When you peel away the name-calling, conspiracy theories and fear mongering, there is not much left. Didn't Bob Brown's success teach anybody anything?
Eddie Storace, Northcote, Vic
DO Christine Milne and her Greens supporters have any idea where their superannuation is invested? Janet Albrechtsen reminds us, yet again, how hypocritical and dangerous the Greens movement really is.
Paul Keefe, Wyreema, Qld
JANET Albrechtsen and Nick Cater ("Victory of the bagmen: a new temperance crusade", 16/1) certainly gave Jonathan Moylan and South Australia's Zero Waste a severe caning. The green activists may plead that they meant well.
However, as Walter Bagehot, an early editor of The Economist, observed, it is often unclear whether more damage is done by those who intend to do good or those who deliberately harm.
Bob Wallace, Dover Gardens, SA
JANET Albrechtsen is on the money about the government's looming misfortunes at the next election. As a businessman of more than 35 years, I've never seen confidence in this country so low.
The past five years have been a nightmare for small business under Labor and it only reinforces how good the Howard years were.
The Greens' "off-the-wall" policies, as Albrechtsen points out, can't and won't be tolerated any longer.
We simply can't sustain their crazy ideas or Labor's continued diatribe of smear against Tony Abbott and the Coalition. This country is better than that.
Rick Highman, Toowoomba, Qld
NICK Cater misses one important side-effect of the plastic bag ban in South Australia: the increased profits to the supermarkets now that they are selling both plastic and shopping bags in vast numbers. No wonder they were so much in favour of the ban.
Paul Williams, Mt Barker, SA
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