Having won three Brisbane seats by door-knocking and listening, party now has sights set on the suburbs
Brisbane’s new Greens MPs talk about the moments they “flipped” voters – the driveway conversions of climate unbelievers or hostile folks who had only ever supported the major parties.– focused on building relationships and listening to voters’ material concerns rather than spruiking – proved wildly successful in Brisbane, culminating in the capture of three federal seats.
“That organisational foundation we’ve built is going to allow us to project out across the state quickly.” “The key component of all of our cost-of-living policies is abolishing means testing. This concept that you have a social right to dental care, you have a social right to free university education, allows us to build very broad-ranging class coalitions because you appeal to a politics that Labor used to represent but no longer does.”
“Every time we spoke to someone at a door, we could draw a direct line to the challenges they were experiencing in their life to what the Greens could offer in terms of help and hope,” she says. “That was the absolute power of it. People wanted hope. People have been beaten around the head for quite a few years now.”
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