The threat is clear.
Should Labor lose its majority at next year’s election, Anthony Albanese could be forced to rely on the radical Greens as part of a power-sharing deal.
This could see the hard-left minor party impose a range of extreme and very unaffordable policies on Australia from free education to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
Renters – who the Greens claim to support – would also suffer under their plan to scrap negative gearing for investors who own more than one property.
Their supposedly utopian policies would make inflation worse, with ordinary Aussies forced to suffer from a political experiment that disregards basic economics.
But there is hope. The tide is turning against the Greens – and a new poll highlighting their popularity plunge is the biggest sign yet their next election effort will be a bust.
Recent state and territory elections have shown the Greens to be politically vulnerable as their extremist rhetoric turns off even left-wing voters with woke views.
Take for example, the Greens’ identity politics fetish and how they claim to be a champion of gay and transgender people. Their leader Adam Bandt, however, has trouble condemning Hamas as a terrorist organisation that hates gay people.
The Greens can be defeated before they become a threat to Australia’s way of life (pictured is leader Adam Bandt, centre, with state Greens MP Jenny Leong and his deputy Mehreen Faruqi)
This is an Islamist group so vile it executed one of its own commanders Mahmoud Ishtiwi on suspicion he was a homosexual.
In a tortured ABC Insiders TV interview in May, Bandt struggled to denounce Hamas – despite multiple questions from host David Speers and the undeniable fact it last year inflicted upon Israel the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Israel is also the only nation in the Middle East that holds gay pride rallies – a fact the Greens seem to conveniently overlook as they routinely march in Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
With the scourge of anti-Semitism on the rise in Australia, Bandt also refuses to condemn the hatred against Jewish people without putting Islamophobia in the same sentence.
Bandt has also repeatedly accused Labor of ‘being complicit in genocide’ – based on Australia exporting a part for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Hamas hiding spots in Gaza.
His party has also shamefully endorsed blockades of Albanese’s Marrickville electorate office, in protest at Israel, with the Prime Minister’s seat of Grayndler considered a long-term Greens target.
The state Greens member for Newtown, Jenny Leong, whose seat overlaps with the PM’s, last year told a public forum ‘the Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby are infiltrating into every single aspect of what is ethnic community groups’. She was accused of referencing an anti-Semitic cartoon and later apologised.
This was a month after keffiyeh-wearing, federal Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi posed in a picture next to a placard that said ‘keep the world clean’ with an Israeli flag above a bin.
Federal Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi posed in a picture next to a placard that said ‘keep the world clean’ with an Israeli flag above a bin
With behaviour like that from the Greens, it’s little wonder a Resolve Political Monitor poll for Nine newspapers showed Bandt with a net likeability score of minus 15.
The Greens have a primary vote of just 11 per cent – the lowest since February.
The political party has also seen their parliamentary numbers halve in recent elections, shrinking from two to one seats in Queensland.
Last month, the Greens lost the state seat of South Brisbane after holding it for just one term.
There was an 11 per cent swing to Labor after preferences in this inner-city electorate, even though former premier Steven Miles lost the general election with a seven per cent swing against his party.
South Brisbane overlaps with the federal seat of Griffith, held by Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather.
The result there demonstrated the possibilities of the Greens being defeated when the Liberal National Party put them last, instead of Labor, out of principle.
In the nearby leafy, Brisbane inner-west seat of Maiwar, the Greens were almost defeated with a 7.4 per cent swing against them on primary votes.
This electorate is also home to the University of Queensland and a similar swing in the overlapping federal seat of Ryan would see the Greens defeated there too.
The Greens are also vulnerable in the federal seat of Brisbane, with the party suffering a 2.9 per cent swing against them on primary votes in the overlapping Labor state seat of McConnel.
The Greens have endorsed blockades of Albanese’s Marrickville electorate office, in protest at Israel, with the Prime Minister’s seat of Grayndler considered a long-term Greens target
Even Canberra, Australia’s most left-wing city, has turned against the Greens.
In the Australian Capital Territory last month, they lost two seats with their tally dropping to four from six.
This occurred as two progressive teal independents were elected, including Thomas Emerson, a former adviser to Senator David Pocock and the son of former Labor trade minister Craig Emerson.
The Greens are vulnerable if left-wing voters, disenchanted with the major parties but uncomfortable with the extremism of the Greens, have a progressive alternative that is also focused on tackling climate change.
This is where the teal independents come in. Teals in parliament could play the role the Australian Democrats used to as a moderate, left-wing minor party before the Greens replaced them.
Environmental values used to guide the Greens, with its former leader Bob Brown becoming an activist with the United Tasmania Group during the 1970s to oppose plans to dam Lake Pedder.
They often go on about climate change causing global temperatures to rise but the Greens are the ones fanning the flames of conflict in the Middle East – putting up the political temperature
But under Bandt’s leadership, the Greens have become an outfit more obsessed with boutique causes like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement targeting businesses that supply goods to Israel.
This BDS movement is so deluded it has held protests in Australia outside Max Brenner cafes, harassing customers trying to enjoy a hot chocolate.
The Greens are now hoping to pick up the inner-Melbourne seats of Wills and McNamara – held by Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns, who in July had ‘Zionism is fascism’ scrawled on his St Kilda electorate office.
They often go on about climate change causing global temperatures to rise but the Greens are the ones fanning the flames of conflict in the Middle East – putting up the political temperature.
It’s time for voters to bring out the hose at the next election.
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