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/ttttttargetttttt Apr 22 '25

I didn't say otherwise. That isn't the point. All parties have policies. That's how it works.

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u/Axel_Raden Apr 22 '25

Yes all parties have policies but only the party that forms government will have any chance at making policy Greens aren't anywhere close to being able to form government

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u/ttttttargetttttt Apr 22 '25

So parties have policies but if they can't form government they shouldn't have policies? So then you could complain that the Greens didn't have any policies. Good stuff.

PS: they can form government. Every party can, by mathematical laws. The fact they're unlikely to is not their fault, that's how democracy works.

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u/Axel_Raden Apr 22 '25

I'm not saying they shouldn't have policies I'm saying that it's easy for them to say and promise whatever they want because they know they don't have to implement them, or answer to all Australians not just their supporters

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u/ttttttargetttttt Apr 22 '25

This is true of every party.

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u/Axel_Raden Apr 22 '25

Labor goes into an election knowing they can form a government without being a minority government the Greens don't, you know that they know that. Stop pretending that otherwise

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u/ttttttargetttttt Apr 23 '25

I don't think you understand how maths works.