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I redacted personal information about Rhiannon's son as recommended by Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Privacy_of_names. The movement of the paragraph to a new section "Controversies" is a bit inappropriate, but there was no other "current events" detail like this in the article which it could be grouped under. I tend to think that the information is not noteworthy as it is about a non-notable separate adult (albeit her son), but it is referenced so I have left it for now with personal information redacted. Sambauers ( talk) 06:47, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
This article reads like an advertisement for Lee Rhiannon. Negative issues are suspiciously absent for a public figure.
No mention that:
Her mother was a prominent Stalinist, and one of the CPA members who left in 1971 to form the SPA since the CPA was criticising the Soviet Union, specifically the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Lee was not an innocent victim of ASIO - she was a self-avowed "revolutionary".
Lee herself joined the Stalinist SPA, and was active in it until the 1980's. Her support of the Soviet Union was never in doubt - she "aggressively praised" endorsement of Moscow’s invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Despite being in the Greens, she almost never talks about environmental issues.
Article here:
http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au/wordpress/?p=455 —Preceding
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1) These facts are matters of public & private record. The documents (university newspapers, membership records, ASIO files) still exist. 2) Ms Rhiannon/O'Gorman/Brown doesn't ever deny them - she just picks on any small inaccuracies in detail (like specific dates) & having distracted the audience, dodges the bulk of the issue by not addressing it at all. 3) The world can see my IP Address. It is unique. This makes me less anonymous than, say, "Sambauers" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.68.54 ( talk) 09:01, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
While googling to try to find references for statements that were tagged with citiation needed, I came across Lee Rhiannon's biography on her own personal web site. It is quite clear that much of this article was copied and pasted from that site, making it a copyright violation. As such, I'm about to remove the parts of the article that are obviously direct copies from that article, and will try to clean up what's left. -- Athol Mullen ( talk) 09:33, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
In the first para there is reference to Rhiannon being "smeared" by the other parties on the basis of her involvement in the SPA/CPA. It gives two citations in support of this but neither link to evidence of smears. Was or wasn't she a member of the party? Evidence please. Have the other parties or media made reference to this in criticising her? Evidence please.
The article says "Rhiannon has said her parents became disillusioned with Moscow following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Chekoslovakia (sic)." Can we have a source for this assertion? If she did say this, she was wrong, since Bill and Freda Brown left the CPA because of its opposition to the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligent Mr Toad ( talk) 10:53, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Just a quick reminder that The Oz is not a reliable source when it comes to the Greens. Thanks. Timeshift ( talk) 06:32, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
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