document: Gillard wakes up to long-term threat BOB Brown wants the Australian Greens to be a mainstream political party . The long-term Green dream is to shift from power-sharing with Labor in government to supplanting the ALP . Julia Gillard , after entering a formal alliance with the Greens to form a minority government , has realised , in the wake of the NSW electoral disaster for Labor , that the Greens are a threat to her short-term credibility and long-term political appeal . After relying on written undertakings with the Greens and rural independent MPs to form a government last year , the Prime Minister has become increasingly alert to the need to frame herself as a conservative , middle-road Australian than she is perceived to be . At the same time , she is distancing herself from the Greens , who find themselves facing real media scrutiny for the first time . Gillard has been putting herself in the middle and setting Labor against the '' `` extremes '' '' of the Coalition and the Greens . The Labor leader and some of her ministers have started using strident language to condemn the Greens ' policies and paint them as being unworldly and not a party of government . At the same time , the Greens ' leader has been pushing his party as mainstream , reasonable and responsible as he tries to pick up Labor voters and any Liberals who want action on climate change . While blaming '' `` the hate media '' '' - specifically The Australian for reporting the Greens policy of a boycott of Israel - Brown conceded yesterday that it cost the Greens votes in NSW and was wrong . It put the Greens back in the extreme shade and made the long-term hope of replacing a major party -LRB- Labor -RRB- less likely . As Nationals ' senator Ron Boswell noted yesterday , the Greens in the Senate opposed a motion moved last week to denounce the Israeli boycott but yesterday was saying it was the wrong thing to do . The Greens ca n't keep having a bob each way , as Boswell said last night .
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