Opinion The Greens’ next move could define our politics for decades
Barely two months after the Greens’ best-ever federal election result, the party’s moment of truth has arrived. The choices its MPs, and especially its leader Adam Bandt, make on the Albanese government’s climate change legislation will have ramifications that go far beyond this electoral term.
– especially if that success includes scoring a win on the totemic and central issue of tackling climate change. Might it not better suit what you might call its business model for Labor to fail in office so that it can pick up more disaffected former Labor voters and dissuade an even greater number of younger voters from ever voting Labor? Yes, this sounds cynical. Obviously, Bandt and his party do care about climate change action.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown wants the Greens to ultimately replace Labor as the party of the left.If you put yourself in Albanese’s shoes, it’s hard to see that as much of a bargain. Albanese might have once characterised himself as a man devoted to fighting Tories, but in his inner-city seat of Grayndler, his chief opponent at every election is not a Liberal but the Green candidate.
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