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Labor might not be left enough for you personally, but each time the libs are defeated they need to move to the left to be viable, and Labor will have to move further left to differentiate themselves.

I'm not sure that's actually how it works in Australian politics, though. Because the major parties are campaigning for the votes of politically disinterested people, they don't need to be ideologically distinct from one another. A campaign where they essentially buy votes through micro-targeted policies suits both of them.

That is to say, the spectrum of acceptable opinions is moving to the left in an observable manner, right now.

I don't necessarily think that's accurate either, at least not based on what the major parties are doing. Generationally it might be true (millennials aren't moving right as quickly as previous generations), but so far the Coalition has made no attempt to move back towards the centre (and might not even do it after this election) so Labor is under very little pressure in that sense.

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I think even some Greens voters dislike her, although maybe she plays better with younger voters now. I would like to see if her approach changes as leader, though.

Yes, as a long-term Greens voter I completely agree that the shift happened under Di Natale, not Bandt. He (Bandt) is getting dumped on because, until now, no one other than long-term Greens voters were even aware that these issues existed. The media mostly ignores The Greens, and when they have reported on them it has generally been under the context of consistent growth. A single election where that growth appears to have stalled and suddenly everyone acts like it is a crisis for the party that must be related to Bandt's recent leadership.

Hanson-Young as replacement? Maybe I'm biased cause she's from SA, but she has also represented the party at the federal level for by far the longest period (even longer than Bandt).

Seems only fair, considering one of the biggest excuses people give for not voting Greens is "they don't have the experience". No fucking shit, you only get that from being consistently voted in lol

Even then it will have a negligible impact. People online really seem to live in a bubble thinking Nintendo customers a) are even aware of the existence of emulators or b) actually have the time, knowledge and interest to use them. Most Nintendo players just buy their games for their stock Nintendo console and are happy to do so.

Right wingers who are hard coping and Labor supporters drunk on schadenfreude, I guess. I have said in other comments that I do think perhaps Gaza was an issue for some softer Greens voters in the sense that The Greens were positioned on one side of a very loud culture war that Trump's re-election redefined in their minds. That's very different to claiming the Greens were "overwhelmingly rejected", though.

Something good is not better than something really good, though. That's always where the balance lies for The Greens. They have an obligation to the hard left of their party to be tough negotiators but they do risk frustrating the softer left who ultimately don't want to see Labor governments being sacrificed in the pursuit of Greens objectives. Labor governments also have a responsibility to everyone, including their voters, to ensure legislation does actually get passed and that means they need to be willing to make concessions to The Greens. It is a line that is getting harder to navigate as The Greens grow and their relationship with Labor becomes more volatile due to greater influence in the electorate, particularly in those seats where they are now direct competitors to Labor.

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I wouldn't stress too much about it, I don't think this will be a major setback for The Greens as a political movement. They are in a difficult stage of their evolution as a party where they are facing some issues balancing environmental and social issues, older and younger voters, hard left voters that will support them no matter what vs soft left voters who they've picked up from Labor over the past couple of decades, etc. Under the past couple of leaders they've had a strong desire to grow and become a real progressive force in Australian politics, but that is not necessarily a realistic goal while our system continues to favour the larger centre.

After jumping to 4 MPs in the 2022 election, I think they tried to go too hard, too soon which might have frustrated some of those softer left voters and pushed them back to Labor. Everyone is very focused on Trump's impact on the right, but if this election was a rejection of culture wars then you have to question whether The Greens have also been caught up in that and were seen as too disruptive and divisive during the last term. I think they actually realised this prior to the election, which is why they tried to pivot to a "keep Dutton out" strategy and back off Labor, but the chaos in the US ultimately made it a difficult perception to dislodge from the minds of some of their softer voters.

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