English DNA and the green party do not mix. You will never explain that car culture, shit education and healthcare are a problem to these people. What you need to do is directly access their feels and leverage their innate sense of entitlement with a populist message and a cultish leader. Or wait for the ecosystem to collapse, that's a good option.

I've seen a lot of analysis and discussion for a very small percentage change in a single election. If I were the Greens, I'd definitely be reviewing policy and protocol because the party should be steadily growing rather than stagnating. But as a single data point I probably wouldn't make any radical changes unless subsequent elections also produce disappointing results.

A lot of their stagnating performance is probably quite superficial. I'm reasonably fond of the Greens, but I think Bandt (and MCM too tbh) were probably a bit grating to the general public - and I think a lot of us have realised that with Bandt's mediocre concession speech. I feel like a decade (or more) ago it was a lot 'cooler' to like the Greens, when they essentially branded themselves as "the science party". They still have a lot of these policies, but it feels like their image in 2025 is a lot more... I don't quite know how to put a finger on it... rage-baitey?

Australian voters emphatically rejected Dutton's culture war bullshit, but Greens need to not be careful to get caught on the other side of the culture war battle and face similar rejection...

As a Greens voter I don't think theres much more the Greens can do ? Albeit I'm open to suggestions.

As a long time Greens voter, their policy platfrom doesn't sit with most voters (science and expert based mixed with kindness and inclusivety)

The issue is, if they morph to recgonise that's not what people want, they will need to look into the abyss and become the abyss and turn into something truly ugly like Labour have done. Albanese literately says that in the AFR today.

Some fun graphics demonstrating it, but this isn't nearly as interesting in terms of actual substance as I was hoping. Just the exact same three points people have been saying since the week after the election. And I agree that these three are the most relevant factors. But they're not especially actionable or insightful.

Another point I heard some voters actually discussing was that they wanted the Greens, but they thought it was more important to keep Dutton out. In other words, problems with voters misunderstanding how our electoral system works.

And of course many people have tried suggesting it's the Greens' fault for being too oppositional. Purely as a matter of fact this is obviously incorrect, but it could have been interesting to know if there's data to back up whether a perception of that might have been a factor. Or something else.