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Giz Watson and Adele Carles when they were both Greens. (ABC News)
Saturday, May 16, 2009 – it was a night of euphoria for the WA Greens.
For the first time ever, the party got a member elected to the Legislative Assembly.
Labor’s stranglehold on the seat of Fremantle was finally broken in a by-election to replace the former Attorney General, Jim McGinty.
Adele Carles, the Greens newest MP, became an overnight sensation.
No-one knew the bigger sensation that was to come.
In less than a year, the night to remember became a night the Greens would rather forget.
Their newest addition quit the party citing irreconcilable differences with Greens MP Giz Watson.
The pair fell out over Adele Carle’s much publicised relationship with Troy Buswell, then the Liberal’s Treasurer.
Ms Watson says the events that unfolded still leave her gobsmacked.
“Nobody saw it coming is all I can say,” she said.
“It was a shock to all of us to deal with that but you can’t predict human behaviour, it was just completely unexpected, it was like a lightning bolt out of nowhere.”
Ms Watson says she doesn’t have any anger about it.
“Adele and I have actually spoken with each other since and are on good terms but I’m just still gobsmacked by what happened,” she said.
Election footing
Giz Watson says it’s onwards and upwards for the party which is now getting ready for the state election in March next year.
She says a lot of soul searching has been done and the party has made a few changes as a result.
The pre-selection process is now more thorough. Greens candidates have to prove they are rusted on, not with a tattoo, but with a demonstrated track record of service.
The party is also taking a breather when it comes to winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly.
Giz Watson says it would be nice if it happens but the party’s number one goal is to win five seats in the Legislative Council.
Currently the party has four Upper House Members.
“We want to have five seats in the Upper House,” she said.
“I’ve been there quite a few terms now and I think despite not being in the balance of power, we continue to play a powerful role in the parliament.
“There have been some pretty excessive pieces of Liberal-National legislation which through our influence have been amended or kicked out.”
The party is on an election footing and all its priority candidates have been pre-selected.
Giz Watson is moving from the North Metropolitan region to contest the South-West, which the Greens lost in 2008.
She says it’s a high risk strategy but she wants to be closer to family and is feeling reasonably confident.
“There are some significant issues in the south-west that have strong green support,” she said.
“I’ve been very involved with the coal mining issue in Margaret River, forests are going to be very much back on the agenda with the drying climate and the looming new Forest Management Plan.
“So, there’s renewed energy to finally get industrial logging out of our native forests.”
Solicitor Cameron Poustie will contest the North Metropolitan Region in her place.
Party veteran Robin Chapple is recontesting his seat in the Mining and Pastoral Region, Lynn MacLaren is seeking another term in South Metropolitan and Alison Xamon is running again in the East Metropolitan.
Critical voting
Ms Xamon says people need to think critically before they vote, especially when it comes to the Upper House.
“I think what we are seeing in this parliament is the problems that emerge when you have the same party controlling both houses,” she said.
“What we have is pretty much the same as what we saw in the final days of the Howard government, whereby you are seeing a Government that doesn’t have appropriate checks and balances, that is able to abuse its numbers.
“We’ve had it for the last three years and, as a result, we are seeing some of the more extreme agendas coming through from this Government.”
Giz Watson says one of the Greens biggest selling points is the work ethic of its MPs, particularly when it comes to parliament.
She says the National Party could learn a thing or two.
“They want to be the good guys out there handing out money but they don’t do the work in the parliament,” she said.
“They’ve got a really easy ride in that regard, often you don’t hear anything from them.
“They are demonstrating by their votes a deeply conservative position that quite shocks me.”
While there’s no one defining environmental issue in the lead up to next year’s election, Alison Xamon says issues of concern are adding up.
“I think the uranium issue is a huge one for the Greens, particularly because Labor, despite what they say, continue to flip flop on this issue,” she said.
“We’ve already seen that with Mark McGowan coming into power.
“The majority of West Australians are actually opposed to uranium mining and yet the Greens are the only party in the parliament who are remaining consistently opposed to this industry.
“I think the issue of fracking for unconventional gas is starting to emerge as a bit of a sleeping giant, particularly in our regional areas, and again, there is no difference between Labor, the Liberals and the Nationals on this.”
While the party isn’t exactly going full throttle for lower house seats, Giz Watson says they’ll be targeting Fremantle, and the inner city seats of Perth and Maylands.
She says the seat of Kimberley might even throw up a surprise; perhaps another night to remember.
“The Kimberley is one to watch,” she said.
“We haven’t got a candidate selected yet but the level of opposition to the gas hub still remains very high and there’s a lot of people who are very keen to get behind a Green’s candidate there.”
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