Adam Bandt's first major policy initiative as the only member of the Greens in the House of Representatives was always going to be loaded with symbolism. When that moment came, he used his political capital in support of same-sex marriage. What, you may ask, has this got to do with the environment? Nothing. Obviously.

Same-sex marriage is now the No.1 issue of the hard left in Australia; therefore it has become the No.1 issue for the Greens. Bandt, a lawyer and academic, was a member of the Left Alliance and his doctoral thesis involved a consideration of Marx. His decision to make gay marriage his top priority reflected his electoral base, where concerns for the environment are subservient to the obsessions of the left.

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The Greens are a fraudulent brand. There are not enough letters of the alphabet to encompass the image fraud this party is perpetrating on the electorate. It is simply not a party preoccupied with the environment.

A: ABCC. The Australian Building and Construction Commission was established to combat rampant corruption and intimidation in the building industry and has been highly effective. The main construction union, the CFMEU, has run a vociferous campaign to shut down the ABCC, which curbed the practice of building sites being threatened with industrial action unless they were ''paid up'' with the union. The CFMEU has donated to the Greens. The Greens want the ABCC abolished.