Greens Election Launch

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 18, 2010 -- Hermit to launch Green’s campaign

Hobart, 18 July 2010

The Australian Greens will launch their 2010 election campaign on August 1 with a spectacular interpretive dance and a speech by a hermit known only as ‘Frank.’

The dance, which will be choreographed by the enfant terrible of Australian theatre Barry Kosky, will involve over 500 dancers consisting of one representing every member of the United Nations, 90 with a range of physical and mental handicaps, 15 signifying the number of recognised sexual orientations, and the rest dressed as extinct or critically endangered species.

Tasmanian Senator Bob Brown said the launch would bring together the entire “earth loving family” and project an “accurate image” of the Greens as a “holistic, inclusive and caring alternative to the major parties.”

The highlight of the campaign launch will be a speech by a reclusive hermit who has lived in a tree in the tarkine wilderness in northwest Tasmania since 1944.

Surviving on moss, lichen and rainwater, ‘Frank’ originally climbed the 94-meter old growth mountain ash after his family played a practical joke by telling him Japanese had conquered the Australian mainland.

“I shimmied up so I wouldn’t be sent to a prisoner of war camp, but after a month I decided I liked the peace and quiet and so I stayed there.”

‘Frank’, who was surprised to hear that Prime Minister John Curtain had died in office and said he had “never heard of television” but thought it sounded “like a bad idea”, was held up as a “model Australian” by Senator Brown.

Under the slogan ‘What ever it is, we’re against it’, the Greens are hoping to increase their numbers in the Senate from 5 to 8 and to win a handful of seats in the House of Representatives, mainly from disaffected Labor voters and the clinically insane.

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of South Australia said that even though the clinically insane vote has traditionally favoured the Nationals and fringe Christian groups such as Family First, the Greens had detected a sea change in attitudes among those with serious mental impairment.

“With about 4 per cent of the electorate classified by the Alternative Medical Association as ‘Clinically Insane’, we see a great future in speaking out on their behalf.”

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