When almost two million Australians voted Green on May 21, how many in this huge 1.3 million surge in Green support over the past two decades really knew what they were voting for? Saving the planet was only the tip of the Green policy iceberg. Voters, genuinely believing in the urgent need for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, (many of them comfortably-off, high-polluting virtue-signallers), were effectively granting 12 Green senators what could be wide-ranging political power over an elected Labor government’s legislation.
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