The balance-of-power party had a breakthrough at the 2022 election, but the next poll could be even more consequential.
The May 2022 election was a breakthrough moment for the Australian Greens. For the first time in the party’s history it won a second Senate seat in every state of Australia, taking its representation in the red chamber to a record high of 12 seats .
Consider the 2022 results. The Greens targeted five Labor-held seats – Griffith in Queensland, Richmond in NSW, Canberra in the ACT, and Macnamara and Wills in Victoria. And they had four held by the Liberals – Queensland’s Brisbane and Ryan and Victoria’s Kooyong and Higgins – in their sights. Five of those nine seats fell, three to the Greens and two to the teals. A similar result is possible this time.
The fourth reason is the war in Gaza, in which Labor has tried, unsuccessfully, to walk a fine line, the Liberals have been all in backing Israel, and the Greens have heavily backed the Palestinians’ right to statehood .And the fifth reason is housing. Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather – dismissively nicknamed “hyphen” by some in the ALP – has been unleashed by party leader Bandt and appears to be living rent-free in the heads of at least a few Labor MPs.
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