So this is how a Serious writer commentates in a Serious newspaper.
Christopher Pearson in Saturday’s Australian:
To consolidate their own position as parties for grown-ups, Labor and the Coalition should always speak of the Greens as the infantile party: resolutely irresponsible, innumerate and a threat to the economy.
They should also be pointing out that the Greens provide a flag of convenience for former Moscow-liners, Trotskyites and other ultra-leftist ratbags.
1.5 million Australians voted Greens in the last federal election.