PM, defeat the Greens without saying blowing apart them

Comments on Janet Albrechtsen “PM, blow apart the Greens”, 24/11/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/pm-blow-apart-the-greens/story-e6frg6zo-1225959731430
The PM and Labor are unlikely to blow apart the Greens. They cannot afford of doing it.

However, what they could do is to develop its own good policies to 'compete' with the Greens. In this way they can distinguish itself from the Greens and defeat then without saying they are blowing them apart.

It is a matter of real leadership and independence as well as cooperation and competition among the loose coalition that is the basis of its minority government.

Gillard and Labor can only marginalise the Greens by having good policies of its own.

If Labor cannot do that, it should ask the nation for another election to seek a new mandate, rather than for short term power at the expenses of longer term viability.

At the moment, Labor is in danger of being eaten away by the Greens. It should and must respond effectively with good policies. Only substance matters now and Labor and Gilalrd must grab it.