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What went wrong for the Greens in the Australian election?
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There is definitely that perception of 'being too oppositional' unfortunately, even though the stats show they support Labor policy like over 90% of the time. Any reasonably politically engaged person will tell you that it's not the job of the senate crossbench to pass policy that isn't within their elected platform, although I empathise Labor is kinda between a rock and a hard place on that front (but that's the cost of being such a big tent catch-all centre party imo).
A few years ago I had a bit of respect for Labor for their political civility (compared to the coalition) but in the last few years I must say I've seen way too many Labor MPs/influencers/rusted-ons spread disinformation (and not just debatable stuff, but stuff you could easily disprove quickly if you bothered to check - mostly about preferential voting and fear mongering about smaller parties). And also just repeating statements from the mining lobby?? Maybe that's just a WA thing!
There are definitely a lot of people who say that online. But I don't think I've seen any evidence to support the claim that it had a significant effect at the election. I haven't seen evidence to oppose that claim either, but that's my point...we're lacking in real data.
WA Labor definitely seems like the worst version of Labor when it comes to the environment...(NSW Labor is the worst in pretty much every other way, from what I've seen) But the federal party kowtows to their WA colleagues far too often. Remember when Plibersek had a deal for some climate policy with the Greens, only for Albanese to come in and destroy the deal, at the request of the WA Premier?