Their marketing and public image is appalling. People equate them with the hardcore Greenpeace style warrior. Young people fixated on a single topic (environment) and willing to hurt the nation in furtherance of that topic. This is especially the case with voters over 40, who remember when the Greens essentially were like this in the 20th century.
If you sit down and go through their policies, not only are they in fact reasonable, they’re probably the best and most transparent party in terms of what they stand for. My only criticism of their platform is it’s a little vague on the how they plan to do stuff and some of it tends to be aspirational rather than achievable. Still, it’s great stuff.
But the percentage of voters who go through the actual stated policies of their choices are sadly in the minority.
Absolutely, the greens will never get positive treatment from corporate media, and corporate Australia in general, precisely because they stand firm on left wing policy that benefits working people. I don’t think anything they say is unachievable but I understand anyone who thinks that way. We have been taught that doing great things for working people is impossible by our past governments because they’d rather sell out then deliver a better future
I must have missed their policy of blocking reforms to environmental protection, housing and others so they can claim Labor get nothing done. Maybe they dropped it after the last elections results?
Their marketing and public image is appalling. People equate them with the hardcore Greenpeace style warrior. Young people fixated on a single topic (environment) and willing to hurt the nation in furtherance of that topic. This is especially the case with voters over 40, who remember when the Greens essentially were like this in the 20th century.
If you sit down and go through their policies, not only are they in fact reasonable, they’re probably the best and most transparent party in terms of what they stand for. My only criticism of their platform is it’s a little vague on the how they plan to do stuff and some of it tends to be aspirational rather than achievable. Still, it’s great stuff.
But the percentage of voters who go through the actual stated policies of their choices are sadly in the minority.
Absolutely, the greens will never get positive treatment from corporate media, and corporate Australia in general, precisely because they stand firm on left wing policy that benefits working people. I don’t think anything they say is unachievable but I understand anyone who thinks that way. We have been taught that doing great things for working people is impossible by our past governments because they’d rather sell out then deliver a better future
Which is not a sign of good policy makers or approach to governance.
It’s probably easier to fix Labor than the Greens
They literally have all their policies laid out and their plans to achieve them in the link provided.
I must have missed their policy of blocking reforms to environmental protection, housing and others so they can claim Labor get nothing done. Maybe they dropped it after the last elections results?
Just a reminder that the housing reforms the greens “blocked” was passed with billions in extra funding precisely because the greens fought for it
So did they secure additional funding for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that was proposed under Rudd?
I can’t recall any recent news about that scheme for some reason. You’d think it would be a hot topic with all that recent climate change news.