Published: 1 April 2025
Last updated: 1 April 2025
With the possibility of a hung parliament, the performance of the Greens on May 3 could have significant impact on the government formed after May 3.
The party is under immense pressure after a string of bad results in 2024 and early 2025. The loss of their long-held Victorian state seat of Prahran in a by-election was the latest in a pattern of miserable results for the Greens in recent years, having also lost seats in state and territory elections in the ACT and Queensland, and local council elections in Victoria and NSW.
They have also suffered high-profile scandals and resignations: Sam Hibbins, resigned from the party and the parliament after admitting to an affair with a staffer; Senator Lidia Thorpe, resigned from the Greens over the party’s support for the Voice referendum, and Senator Dorinda Cox has faced a series of bullying allegations from her staff.
So just how bad is the Greens damage? Will they suffer further losses in this year’s federal election? To what extent has their positions on the Israel-Gaza war contributed to this loss of support?
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Ian Grinblat1 April at 06:14 am
Here we go again: (The Greens) could snatch Jewish heartland in Macnamara if a surge from Labor to Liberal on primary pushes Jewish MP Josh Burns into third. As TJI outlined in its analysis last week, it would be a sad irony if Jewish voters seeking to punish Labor ended up defeating one of our few proudly Jewish MPs and delivered the Greens the seat instead.
Why does Josh Burns preference the Greens over Liberals? The Greens are bad for everyone, and if they achieve power through a formal agreement with a minority Labor government, we should prepare for a drastic loss of national income (no mining, no fish farming, no agriculture, no dams, no cars, no buses, no roads) and an unreliable electricity supply. That’ll be fun, won’t it?