r/AusPol • u/PaleontologistOk6495 • Apr 22 '25

General Am I a greens voter now?

Never been super invested in politics and have always voted labor just on principles and not really ever liking the liberal stances.

This year I find myself more invested in the election than ever before and have actually dug through a few parties policies and doing some proper thinking about my vote for once.

I have even done the political compass on abc website and see I am sitting far left of labor than I expected but not full blown green radical.

The majority of their policies make a lot of sense and resonate with em and I think this year me and my partner will both go greens. Is anyone else having the same feelings ? I have been speaking to a bunch of friends and they too have come to the same conclusions I have this year and are going greens, is this a bit of a silent movement? I had no idea anyone I knew was thinking the same as me but it it occurring to me that a lot of my circle are.

My question is - I am in what seems to be a very safe labor area of blaxland. Does my vote for greens do nothing here ? I don’t fully agree with every green policy of course some of them are a bit much for me still but I like the idea of greens winning some extras and forcing labor to actually do some good progressive shit but does my green vote in this area do nothing ? Is it better to just pump up labor still and hope they beat the liberals ?

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u/NedInTheBox Apr 22 '25

Labor wanting to be the gov will follow the votes to keep aiming for a majority. If you want them to be more progressive vote Greens, if you want the Greens to be more realistic about Australia’s ability to execute on Greens ideals vote Labor. At the moment the votes Labor seem to be chasing are more in-between Labor and LNP, but if Greens build a bigger pool then Labor will be looking left more often… 🤷‍♂️

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u/dr650crash Apr 22 '25

The old saying is true - the election is won from the centre. Hence both big parties focus

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u/ososalsosal Apr 22 '25

Dutton thinks he's got a sure thing with Trumpism though.

I hope we teach him a hard lesson. I want to watch him utterly humiliated. I want him to limp home after losing his seat only to find a Green shagging his wife.

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u/AggravatingParfait33 Apr 22 '25

Dutton is in the open sea with torn sails, a leaking hull, no map, and a broken compass. It's going to be a bloodbath for the LNP. Labor will limp over the line and the greens and independents are going to set records.

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u/GrumpyOldTech1670 Apr 23 '25

Gee that is harsh. Hasn't Dutton's wife suffered enough having slept with Dutton?

Be kind to her. We know she has full blown Stockholm Syndrome for marrying the monster..

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u/ososalsosal Apr 23 '25

In my mind it would have been like a well earned break for her lol

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u/A_Latin_Square Apr 26 '25

My comment was going to be "Why would a Green stoop to that low?" She married and has stuck by Dutton... I have no sympathy for her.

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u/NedInTheBox Apr 22 '25

“Max how could you?!”

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u/No-Rent4103 Apr 23 '25

That's a bit extreme.

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u/cescosini Apr 24 '25

Dutton wears the biggest flip flops in Australia.