--- In powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au, "TimC" <tim_augustus@...> 
wrote:

Since you bring this up, I read an article on Crikey.com.au that I 

wanted to

share with the list but was foiled by it's untimely demise ;-)

 


Mungo: Garrett abandons utopia for results


Mungo MacCallum writes:

You have to feel sorry for Peter Garrett. He's had a pretty rough 

time since

he joined the Labor Party more that three years ago, and it all 

came to a

head last week.

When Garrett, on behalf of the ALP, signed off on the government's 

decision

to approve the Tamar Valley pulp mill, the Greens turned 

carnivorous. From

being a trusted environmental warrior, Garrett had become a sell 

out and a

cipher, the shadow minister who didn't cast a shadow. As everyone 

had

predicted, the Labor Party had chewed him up and spat him out.