[LINK] German left slam email spy plan

[Marghanita da Cruz]

David Goldstein wrote:
> What's "centre-right" in Europe is not centre-right in Australia... Wikipedia doesn't deal with this... a passing following of European politics tells you this.
> 

According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre-right>
"The centre-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote 
individuals, political parties or organisations (such as think tanks) whose 
views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding 
far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist and 
right-wing parties."

Wikipedia can facilitate a personal passing spectrum analysis of political
parties across countries.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_politics#Political_parties_in_Australia_today>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Germany#The_parties>

and perhaps the greens offer some calibration between Germany and Australia:
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Greens#Origins>
"During her 1984 visit to Australia, West German Greens parliamentarian Petra
Kelly urged that the various Greens groups in Australia develop a national
identity. Partly as a result of this, fifty Greens activists gathered in
Tasmania in December to organise a national conference[9]"

Marghanita

> David
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>
> To: David Goldstein <wavey_one at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
> Sent: Monday, 3 September, 2007 8:26:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] German left slam email spy plan
> 
> David Goldstein wrote:
>> Germany's so-called "right-wing government" is a grand coalition - a coalition of the CDU (Christian Democrats) and
>> the SPD (Social Democrats) - the 2 largest parties. It's the chancellor
>> who comes from the CDU. The CDU itself is more left wing than a Labor government in Australia, the Democrats in the USA and probably the British Labour government...
> 
> 
> From
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union>
> 
> Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU — Christlich Demokratische Union 
> Deutschlands) is the second largest political party in Germany. A centre-right 
> Christian party,
> 
> and from
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany>
> Founded in 1875, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische 
> Partei Deutschlands--SPD) is Germany's oldest political party and its largest in 
> terms of membership. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt 
> Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing 
> the interests of the working class and the trade"
> 
> Marghanita
> 
> 
>> David
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au>
>> To: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
>> Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2007 1:04:22 PM
>> Subject: [LINK] German left slam email spy plan
>>
>> I thought Germany had a right wing government however,...
>>> LEFT-WING members of the ruling coalition have objected strongly to plans by the German interior ministry to enlist email spy software to monitor terror suspects.
>>> A ministry spokesman confirmed that the proposed plank of new anti-terror legislation vetted the use of "Trojans" which smuggle themselves into a suspect's computer disguised as a harmless email.
>> <http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,22332480-5013040,00.html?from=public_rss>
>>
>> Marghanita
> 
> 


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