With the election just days away, this is a good opportunity to let everyone read about why I got involved in politics, why I chose to join the Green Party and why you should be voting Green.

I joined the Green party because for me, there simply was no other alternative. The major parties have for the main part abandoned the majority and have adopted a corporate approach to running government.

That can look great on the balance sheet, but at the end of the day, whilst we always seek a fiscally responsible government, the true role of parliament is to provide us with the basic social fabric which binds us as a community.

HealthCare , Education, and appropriate and timely investment in infrastructure (roads, water, waste management for example). To ensure that for one and all we have a clean healthy safe and prosperous environment in which to live, work, socialise and raise our families.

Green politics has for many years been associated as a negative perspective ­ stop development, anti this, anti that! It's been a terrific campaign waged quite successfully by the major parties and to some degree by a great deal of the mainstream media. But it's not true !!

What Green politics is about is well managed, well planned and sustainable world's best practice.

Let's look at one possible example:

Even in today's gloomy climate of rising petrol prices there are many fantastic opportunities for business. Our current government is only just waking up to the idea of alternative fuels with its LPG initiative due to overwhelming voter backlash.

But this crisis is in itself a great opportunity for business ­ imagine the benefits both financially and enviromentally if we actually develop an alternative fuel system? Ethanol blends? Compressed natural gas? Plenty of potential options. And what about the flow on effects to our automotive industry and its myriad of associated small businesses.

A lot of us lived through the previous oil crisis and were all in agreement about the reality and impact of global warming and the corresponding contribution our fossil fuel use makes to the problem.

Wouldn't a government have invested and encouraged this type of development earlier?

A forward thinking, well planned and managed one would. One devoted to the improvement and care of our society as a whole. That's the difference between the approach of traditional parties and the Greens. And that's the choice we all face at the ballot box this coming Saturday.

No choice really.