I guess you can't accuse him of greenwashing

Well, I was pretty disapointed to hear about Rudd's tour of Tasmania during which he has refused to meet with conservation groups and overturned Labor's policy of wishing to protect some of Tasmania's old growth forests. However, it did completely reaffirm my decison to abandon Labor and join the Greens.

I like MrLefty's summary of what this means for Australian democracy:

I think it's good that at the next Federal Election we'll have the choice between a Liberal Party that wants to log Tasmania's old-growth forests in the interests of logging companies, and a Labor Party that wants to log Tasmania's old-growth forests in the interests of logging workers. That's what democracy is all about!

And to think that I was pleased with getting rid of Beazley...