David Shoebridge

The Greens have been greening.

It's all about internecine struggles and David Shoebridge and who said what to whom and when.

At a state level, like, I haven't heard anything at a state level.

From the Victorian Greens.

But in Senate estimates where the witnesses have to like legally tell the truth and not mislead Parliament, we get some pretty weird evasive answers on this question.

Here is the Greens' David Shoebridge, this was before he was leader of the party, asking the Australian Defence Force earlier this year about whether our autonomous drones can kill by themselves.

So, does that prohibit killer robots that make decisions to kill without human involvement? Is that part of the design for the Ghost Shark?

The requirement for all of those systems and the means by which, if they were to have lethal capabilities, those would be employed will be compliant with our understanding of international law.

But governments are only getting away with it because people don't know about this, don't know their government is doing that.

Yeah.

And guess what? The tape I played where the Australian Defence Force told David Shoebridge, you know, we will respect international law, Australia's obligations we abide by.

Guess what Australia's position is ahead of this meeting in Geneva that we're attending? How are we going to vote? We are opposed to a treaty banning autonomous weapons from killing without a human being in the loop.

But anyway, he survived that.

And then on Wednesday, the New Greens leader, Senator David Shoebridge, gave his first address to the National Press Club to lay out his vision for a more progressive Australia, focusing primarily on economic policy.

He condemned our shitty neoliberal status quo, taking aim at privatization and the marketization of every facet of Australian life, including our public services.

Talked about how the deal between government and the people is breaking down.

Next you're going to want them to read something that's not their own organisation's line on something.

Like, for God's sake.

I mean, I think that the wider point that it spoke to was that it wasn't a particularly comfortable environment for David Shoebridge to be walking into for multiple reasons.

But one, Australian political and media classes do not take the Greens seriously in Australia, despite the fact that.

find the joke and think about batman i thought you were gonna quote bane do you feel in charge

nobody wanted to know what was till i put the mask on but when something rises up there's something else that rises up as well okay so recently David Shoebridge was elected the leader of the Greens and he's been out there trying to push his message.

This is something that popped up on my feed the other day.

So this is David Shoebridge talking to the National Press Gallery and I want to get your comments after what we play.

This is now accepted as normal that a nurse going to work.

working 60 hours a week, keeping us safe and well, that nurse pays more than more than a quarter of big corporations in tax.

A plan to return over $1,000 to pretty much everyone in the country paid for by the 1%.

And the first step is to make the 1% pay their fair share of tax.

Right.

On October 14th, the Australian Greens leader, David Shoebridge, introduced a bill to ban the import of these glasses for a year.

Yeah, and the media was calling them, uh, pervert glasses.

Because of the fears of covert filming, exactly.

I don't at the moment.

Um, but how that plays out over the next couple of years is going to be really interesting to see and, um, Whether we can see something like, whether we will see something like that happen here in Australia with the Greens, which is certainly something David Shoebridge has been, the new leader has been talking about, whether that actually eventuates here is going to be a really interesting thing, is whether we see that kind of fragmentation we've seen on the right of politics happen on the left.

Yes, that will be very interesting.

I will say that Shoebridge, in terms of boosting the Greens vote, that hasn't registered yet.

The Albanese government and its officials continue to resist attempts to clarify what personal data will be given to the U.S. government under an enhanced border security partnership plan that is being secretly negotiated with the Trump administration.

Greens leader David Shoebridge devoted an extended period of the appearance of the Home Affairs Department later last week to obtain basic information about the state of negotiations on the partnerships.

The US is demanding that all countries that currently participate in the visa waiver program finalize partnerships for sharing personal and biometric data on their citizens by the end of December.

The European Union has conducted a public consultation process about the development of partnerships between the US and member countries.