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July 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared that minor parties don’t last after delegates at NSW Labor’s annual conference openly brawled over how to treat the Greens.
Without mentioning the Greens, Ms Gillard told the Sydney Town Hall audience: “Other parties come and go, often promising more, always delivering less.”
Still, Australian Greens leader Christine Milne praised Ms Gillard for not criticising the Labor-Greens minority government alliance in her speech to 850 conference delegates on Sunday.
“All Australians I think will be very pleased to see that the prime minister chose to rise above the brawling blokes in NSW when she addressed the Labor conference there today,” Senator Milne told reporters in Hobart.
But senior federal opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne said Ms Gillard’s failure to denounce the Greens showed she lacked authority.
“She entirely failed the leadership test today,” Mr Pyne told reporters on Sunday.
“She squibbed it. She had a choice: she could either stand up for the Labor movement or stand with the Greens. She chose to do neither.”
NSW Labor delegates from the Left and Right factions unanimously voted on Saturday in favour of a motion for state Labor to deny the Greens automatic preferences at elections.
But not before left-wing stalwarts Anthony Albanese and John Faulkner slammed the conference for having a debate about preferential deals instead of how to win back Greens voters with progressive values.
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke, from Labor’s Right, told Sky News on Sunday a vigorous debate about the Greens was needed.
“There’s been a conversation publicly that really did need to happen, simply about what does Labor stand for,” Mr Burke said.
With polls consistently showing the Gillard government on track for a NSW and Queensland-style electoral wipeout, the prime minister said: “Labor isn’t a brand, it’s a cause.”
It appeared to be a reference to calls by Liberal National Party president Bruce McIver on Saturday for the party to move away from attacks on Ms Gillard and focus “on attacking the toxic Labor brand”.
Ms Gillard stirred party delegates into sustained applause by declaring she had the mettle to fight Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
“Tony Abbott got it right, when he told his party room: `She won’t lie down and die’,” Ms Gillard said in relation to Mr Abbott’s comments in May.
“Too right, I won’t.”
In a bid to reconnect with Labor’s political base of low-paid workers, Ms Gillard announced at the conference that her government would commit another $1 billion so workers in the female-dominated community sector are given equal pay.
It takes commonwealth funding to $3 billion over the phase-in period that runs to 2021.
Union leaders were more concerned with rubbishing Mr Abbott, with Transport Workers Union national secretary Tony Sheldon crudely criticising the opposition’s political closeness to the world’s richest woman.
“It’s like he has a Gina Rinehart wet dream every night about the fact that we can bring and fly in workers from overseas at their thousands and undermine Australian wages and conditions,” Mr Sheldon told reporters outside Sydney Town Hall.
Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon told conference delegates that Mr Abbott was lying when he said he was a friend of the worker.
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