Tasmanian Greens launch state campaign

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By Sarah Stephen HOBART — Six hundred people crowded into the Town Hall on February 7 to hear Greens candidates speak about their campaign for the House of Assembly and their vision for Tasmania. Polls are predicting that the Greens may win another two seats in the February 24 election, bringing their representation to seven in a house of 35. Christine Milne, leader of the Tasmanian Greens, is the first woman to lead a party into the elections in Tasmania. Many people are beginning to see the Liberals and the ALP as one and the same party, and the Greens, no longer completely marginalised by the establishment media, as the true opposition. A picket of ALP members was set up outside the launch, asking the Greens to make their position clear on the privatisation of Telstra. Even the ALP has been forced to relate to the Greens as a real force whose preferences could determine the outcome.

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