The movement of ‘soft’ voters between Labor and the Greens represents a big opportunity for the Greens. But where can the Liberals get that extra support they need to edge ahead of Labor?
Australian Greens
The Greens take their medicine on the drug debate
The Greens intend to maintain their moderate drugs policy rather than back-pedal — as they repeatedly have in the past — under threat of a scare campaign. It’s the right play.
The nerd vs. the bruiser
The 2010 election is shaping as the least inspirational political clash in decades. The key concern for Labor strategists is whether voters have simply stopped listening to the Prime Minister.
Antony Green: Can the Greens oust Lindsay Tanner?
There’s been a surge of support for the Greens, but is it enough for them to win the hotly-contested seat of Melbourne? Antony Green examines the polling data.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: It’s not ETS being Greens
According to one Crikey reader, “the ETS surrender was the signal for many Labor voters to turn to the Greens in desperation.” And the National Heart Foundation ticks.
Labor and the retreat of Greens preferences
Greens preferences seem to have been shifting considerably over the last six months. Possum Comitatus takes a closer look at where preferences are now going.
Greens could inspire a climate change
The Nielsen poll is supposed to have sent the government into panic mode, but the poll is wildly out of whack. Just how strong is the swing to the Greens anyway?
Where do Greens voters come from?
ALP Senator-turned-pundit John Black made an unforgivable leap of logic in his hatchet job on the Greens in The Weekend Australian.
Essential: Rise and rise of the Greens
Labor is leaking voters to the Greens, torn between progressive voters who want the party to move to the Left, and voters who don’t understand the asylum seeker issue.
Milne: Rudd has wedged himself on fossil fuel subsidies
One thing Kevin Rudd probably wants even less right now is to open up a new front in the battle with the cashed-up miners, writes Australian Greens deputy leader Christine Milne.
Devine: Bob Brown, the green-eyed monster
With voters disillusioned by both major parties, the Greens may end up holding the balance of power in the Senate. Be careful of these “unaccountable, job-killing ideologues”, warns Miranda Devine.
Going Green
Daily Media Wrap: Are Australian voters turning Green? Yesterday’s Newspoll had the Australian Greens primary vote at a whopping 16%. What’s happened?
Political snippets: Non-major-parties stage an opinion poll climb
The split between minor parties have consistently shown the non-major-parties vote around the 20 per cent mark. Plus, campaigning for second preferences, another boost for the Greens and other political news.
Newspoll gets Greenwashed
The ALP has risen one point in the latest Newspoll, taking the two party preferred to 51/49. But the Greens have jumped a whopping 4 points to come in on 16. Is it a rogue Green poll? asks Possum Comitatus.
Media briefs: Deveny goes Green? … mining the media conflict …
Catherine Deveny courts the Greens, no RSPT when it comes to mining media conflicts, The Age gets cheap and other media tidbits from around the traps.
The smoking gun: Labor always planned to shut the Greens out of the ETS
It was always Kevin Rudd’s political strategy to do a deal on an ETS with the Opposition, and to shut the Greens out of any negotiations. And now there’s proof, says the Greens’ Tim Hollo.
The government’s strange flip flops on nuclear
This government has an extraordinarily inconsistent attitude toward nuclear issues. It refuses to countenance an Australian nuclear power industry and launched the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.
No sex, no YouTube, no Facebook — Conroy’s still watching you
Stephen Conroy’s controversial internet filter has been placed on the backburner in the hope that it won’t become a major election issue. But stay alert, writes Ross Fitzgerald, the internet filter will come back even more draconian than ever.
Antony Green: Why Rudd shouldn’t call a Double Dissolution
A double dissolution election may weaken the Coalition’s power in the Senate, but it probably wouldn’t strengthen the ALP’s, says Antony Green. Instead, the spoils would go to the Greens.
Bartlett: Why we need the Greens
The Tassie Greens have spent 20 years building up their strong influence in the state. Just as the Lib Dems are trying to do in the UK, can the Greens finally end the two party system? asks Greens candidate Andrew Bartlett.
Fran Kelly: Political satire is no longer a joke
From Rudd ditching his grand ETS plan to Tony Abbott criticising him for it and the Greens dropping the ball on climate policy, this week in politics could have been an episode of Hollowmen, writes Fran Kelly.
Standing up for nothing leaves Labor open to attack
If asylum seekers and the abandonment of a charter of rights hadn’t made it clear, the retreat on an ETS confirms this is not a government prepared to die in a ditch over matters of high principle.
Have the Greens gone off the rails?
Senator Bob Brown’s call for a new study on a very fast train between Melbourne-Canberra-Sydney risks provoking some fierce green negativity, since trains are powered by fossil carbon releasing coal fired power stations, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tamils vote for independence — and will vote against Labor
Australian’s Tamil community want an independent homeland in Sri Lanka. And they want respect from a federal government here that is now denying visa applications to their people.
Minister for coal out of step with climate change action
Darren Lewin-Hill led a group of four local climate campaigners meeting with their federal MP, Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson. They weren’t encouraged by his rhetoric.
