Greens target of smear attack
The New South Wales Greens office was vandalised early on Monday morning.
Police were called to investigate after locks on the outside of the office on Eve St, Erskineville were smashed and the walls smeared with excrement.
Greens MP David Shoebridge said the attack wasn’t just against the Greens; it was an attack on the way public debate is conducted.
He pointed to the increasingly attack-focused political coverage as a contributing factor in the incident.
“We are seeing a rising level of vitriol and anger in the political discourse here in NSW,” he said.
“From talk-back radio’s unrestrained attacks on individual politicians to hateful opinion pieces in our major papers, this State needs to take a good hard look at the way we do politics.”
He was adamant the attack would not impair the functioning of the NSW Greens in any way and stated staff would continue to use office.
“I am hopeful that this kind of attack will be broadly condemned and we spend the next five months debating principal and policy, not heat and light.
by Simon Black
