Sadly it results in people voting the slightly less rightwing Labor party. Greens are somewhat leftist, but they’re not seeing the gains needed to be influential enough on policy formation.
But the beauty of our preferential voting system is you can keep voting greens #1 and letting your vote flow onto the next best option/s until over time the greens (or your party of choice) can build up numbers to contest as ruling party, and leave the conservatove parties behind.
You still get the not-quite-so-shit government in the mean time, but progress is happening.
Sadly it results in people voting the slightly less rightwing Labor party. Greens are somewhat leftist, but they’re not seeing the gains needed to be influential enough on policy formation.
But the beauty of our preferential voting system is you can keep voting greens #1 and letting your vote flow onto the next best option/s until over time the greens (or your party of choice) can build up numbers to contest as ruling party, and leave the conservatove parties behind. You still get the not-quite-so-shit government in the mean time, but progress is happening.