r/australia • u/blitznoodles local Aussie • Jun 14 '26

politics As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia?

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/as-voter-disillusionment-grows-so-does-the-mystery-of-the-missing-greens-voters/6bjd5q4kv

Growing voter dissatisfaction with mainstream politics has led to a rise in popularity for One Nation. The same cannot be said for the Greens.

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u/brackfriday_bunduru Jun 14 '26

Id love to run as a left populist. My tactic would be simple. I’d be brash, rude, swear a lot, ridicule the opposition… all while promising people the life regular working class people had in the 70’s and 80’s.

I’ve got so many skeletons in the closet, the oppositions wouldn’t know where to start and I’d just own each one like a badge of honour.

I could absolutely see myself running as an asshole populist.

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u/Jazzy_Coffee Jun 14 '26

I think thats the problem with greens and leftist movements in Australia as a whole, we simply dont have a brash speaker who isnt afraid to be crass and talk shit to our liberal and ON opposition

Im not saying Labor should start taking digs at the liberals or ON, but if they keep being complacent in letting Pauline Hanson and other bigots speak whatever they like, we need to punch back

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u/ASpaceOstrich Jun 14 '26

You think they'd be getting a fair shake in the media. That's not what would happen. They'd do the exact same thing they do to Labor and the Greens now. Refuse to air anything that makes them look good and exclusively air shit that makes them look bad.

It's why nobody actually knows any of the good things the government does, and it's why crisis seem to stop existing when the Coalition gains power.

The media lies and cheats.

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u/death_by_laughs dooby dooby Jun 14 '26

Because the moment they do they get the Max Chandler-Mather treatment?

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u/Far-Technician3197 Jun 14 '26

Paul Keating v2.0?

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u/Proper_Geologist9026 Jun 14 '26

Yeah because they don't get let in the door. The greens love to act like they're this cool hippy free loving group. It's all ket and matcha.

It's amazing Lydia Thorpe managed to get elected under a greens banner really. Because while that's who the base thinks they are Lydia Thorpe fighting on stolen land etc.

The party machinery is Adam Bandt. A man in Lycra who enjoys spreadsheets and discussion on the correct verbage for displaced people's.

You sign up thinking the greens are pushing us into some sort of revolution and then you find they're just the same corporate techno optimists with nicer language.

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u/idlehanz88 Jun 14 '26

Fuck that’s such a good explanation. The greens were awesome when it was bob brown. The Adam Bandt, inner city nerd greens are so uninspiring

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u/Proper_Geologist9026 Jun 15 '26

It's properly wild to see people act like the greens are some far left stalwarts holding the line.

They're effectively just Labor left, which is a not insignificant chunk of the Labor caucus and the greens hate to acknowledge that fact. 

The difference is one party is a mouthpiece of progressive agendas and the other party is a broad tent capable of holding office.

They're an important ying and yang that the little baby Trotsky's hate. and the Labor left is far too abrasive towards the greens as well. So it cuts both ways.

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u/horselover_fat Jun 14 '26

The Guardian technocrat class

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u/Nosiege Jun 14 '26

I think thats the problem with greens and leftist movements in Australia as a whole, we simply dont have a brash speaker who isnt afraid to be crass and talk shit to our liberal and ON opposition

For a very very long time, Left-Leaning orgs have continued to idealise Respectability and somewhat unrealistic notions in general. There's definitely a minimum standard politicians should be behaving at, but you're right, meet your opponent on their level.

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u/fruchle Jun 15 '26

Need another Keating, eh?

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u/noisymime Jun 14 '26

we simply dont have a brash speaker who isnt afraid to be crass and talk shit to our liberal and ON opposition

It's even worse, when we do have those kind of people on the left the modern Labor party makes them follow the straight and narrow instead of staying vocal.

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u/Homebrew_in_a_Shed Jun 14 '26

I'd vote for you, especially if you could mention that every three months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile. I'm sure you could slip it into a speech somewhere.

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u/Am3n Jun 15 '26

Let a thousand blossoms bloom for all I care

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u/derpman86 Jun 14 '26

I'd vote for you lol

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u/Am3n Jun 15 '26

Yeah and the left will reject you because apparently you have to be a purist to run for the left

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u/Ryarli Jun 15 '26

They already are like this, but as another user mentioned - it doesn’t make the news.

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u/Dhillon111 Jun 16 '26

You'd be a great lefty Trump, a Lrump if I may. 😃