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Victorian Premier Denis Napthine says the Liberal Party will preference the Greens last.

Both major parties have shunned the Greens in the Victorian election, although the minor party thinks it can win the Labor-held seat of Melbourne in its own right.

Premier Denis Napthine said on Thursday the Liberal Party would preference the Greens last in all seats, saying they were bad for the economy and Victoria.

And Labor has rejected a formal preference deal with the Greens, but says it could still swap votes on a seat-by-seat basis to maximise the chances of booting the coalition from government on November 29.

Melbourne Greens candidate Ellen Sandell, who will fight to win the seat that Labor holds by 4.7 per cent, said the Liberals' comments were unsurprising.

"We've always planned to win without preferences within our own right, just like (federal Greens MP) Adam Bandt did with a seven per cent swing," she told AAP.

Ms Sandell said it was no surprise the major parties were trying to keep the Greens out but they could win without them.

"It's also no surprise that Napthine and Abbott would prefer to have a Labor MP here in Melbourne rather than the Greens because they know that Labor will roll over on the East West toll road, they'll roll over on privatisation of TAFE, they won't shut down our dirtiest coal power stations and replace them with renewables," she said.

Dr Napthine said the Liberal Party would put the Greens last in all lower house seats, but was unclear whether it would put them below controversial conservative parties, such as Rise Up Australia, on how-to-vote cards for the upper house.

"If there's extremist candidates, we will consider putting them below the Greens," he said.

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The South Australian Opposition has formally moved to set up a parliamentary inquiry into unconventional gas exploration in the state's south-east.

But the Liberals moved to debate the subject on December 10, an optional sitting day for Parliament that the Government says is unlikely to proceed if there is little on the agenda.

The motion's passage through the Lower House is also reliant on the support of two independent MPs, Geoff Brock and Martin Hamilton-Smith, who both sit on Labor's Cabinet.

State Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said the mining industry was furious with Opposition Leader Steven Marshall over the inquiry.

"The man whose two seats from becoming Premier of South Australia is flagging to the entire world that he is anti-gas, he's anti-oil and he's anti-business," he said.

"That scares them and that worries them.

"The oil and and gas sector, the mining sector, employ 15,000 people in this state and he's putting all that at risk."

The Greens have a similar motion to be debated in the Legislative Council next week.

Greens MLC Mark Parnell said they would offer to negotiate the terms of the inquiry with the Liberals but the Opposition's "heart was not in it".

"If their heart was in it, they would have put it to a vote in the chamber where it has a chance of winning," he said.

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The liberal intelligentsia is mad at Americans again. But where the railing is usually about, say, their penchant for guns or religion, this time its about their refusal to turn out to vote.

Blasted Americans.

The lowest turnout in more than seven decades so irked the University of Wisconsins paper, the Cardinal, that it rushed out a column calling for mandatory voting. The doltish voters dont seem to grasp that this is, as The New York Times put it in an editorial, bad for Democrats.

And even worse for democracy, it added.

Never mind that we sloths managed to end Democratic control of the Senate while bestirring, in most states, fewer than half of our eligible voters.

Id have thought we deserved a medal for efficiency.

After all, just 36.3 percent of eligible voters turned out in this election. According to MSNBC, we havent seen that since FDRs last stand in 1944. Yet the decision made by these few, these happy few, was streamed in headlines across every front page in the land.

The left seems to prefer the old Soviet system. This, according to a quick check, produced a turnout in the 1950 legislative election of 100 percent. The Democrats ... pardon me, the Communists, won in a landslide.

Old Joe Stalin knew how to fire up democracy and nobody had to run any negative ads (of course, theyd have been cast into the Gulag Archipelago if they did).

Then again, by the logic of the left, the voters must have been happy as clams under the Soviet system. The Times has it that our voters stayed home because of anger and frustration at the relentlessly negative tone of the campaigns.

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