Dorinda Cox accuses Greens of racism in scathing resignation letter (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

Greens defector Dorinda Cox says her former party failed to address serious concerns she raised and enabled a "toxic" culture.

Senator Cox also denied any suggestions she has ever perpetrated bullying, despite a number of complaints from former staff that were reported last year.

What's next?

The senator says she is eager to now focus on getting tangible outcomes for First Nations people.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

focus on getting tangible outcomes

I only just realised how meaningless this phrase is. And I'm pretty sure it's used a lot. It's like this kind of language is deliberately crafted to scramble our brains.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you start believing that racism is the cause of all your woes you'll see it everywhere, particularly if - for example - you're still salty about losing a vote to be deputy leader.

It is amusingly ironic though because the Greens both appear the least likely party to actually be racist and the most likely party to have enabled such a mindset during her time with them.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As a previous Greens' member (I live overseas now) I can say that my experience is that Greens' members are generally pretty sensitive to causing offence and are more than willing to apologise if they are told they're causing it, at least by other members. This is of course anecdotal though.

Also maybe changing your vote because you thought an individual action by someone was stupid is a childish way of thinking about politics?

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the only public self-reflection they've done regarding the last term is that "Labor ran an effective campaign on us blocking the HAAF for a year" IIRC.

Basically no political party is going to have an open public discussion on this. There's clearly two "factions" of the Greens, one more pragmatic and the other more 'activist'. I think the observation that Labor ran an effective smear campaign on their own unwillingness to negotiate is pretty obvious (not to say that there isn't also some need for a discussion about how much blocking is the right amount). But everyone seems to think the Greens are "this must be perfect" type people despite the fact that they showed in the last term they were willing to reduce demands or vote for things they didn't like so I guess it isn't.

...Max Chandler-Mather's comments about other politicians being mean

Other MPs complained about how he was treated so... (See here).

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