He moved again??

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Yeah, he and E bought a place in Cannington.

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It's an even bigger milestone than that - this is the first time a Greens candidate has won a plurality of primary vote, ever :D

I'm still technically a member of the Fremantle-Tangney Greens, but unfortunately I can't claim any credit for helping, apart from having agreed with the consensus on Adele in the preselection mailing lists, since I don't, like, live there and get to vote. My parents still do though, I'm calling them to thank them first thing tomorrow :)

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I don't know, if the greens and ALP formed a coalition couldn't Greens concerns end up being sidelined like Nationals ones are by The Coalition? (That and..the term "That Coalition" would become very confusing! This is a very important thing to keep in mind)

Still, my (very leftwing, south-of-the-river) family are going to be ecstatic :)

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Yeah. The actual reality of it probably would be so idealistic as it is in my head. It would probably be just as divisive and political as every other political union. Still I fail to see how green issues could currently be taken any less seriously.

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Labor is a pretty broad church with a powerful right wing faction. Green policies could easily be rejected by the Party as a whole.

Lots of Labor members are more concerned with jobs than environmental issues. Think Coal Miners. The Inner City left are very different from rank and file union members.

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Still I fail to see how green issues could currently be taken any less seriously.

You may have a point :/

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The concerns of the rural voters are routinely sidelined by "The Coalition" because the voters don't care enough to get their MPs to do anything about it. The rural voters keep voting for the National party who mostly fail dismally to represent the issues that really matter to them (10 years of coalition government were the worst 10 years for farmers ever).

I don't think that the Greens would ever have that problem.

What I would like to see is not a Green/ALP coalition (except possibly as a temporary measure). I would like to see two major parties, the Greens and the ALP. Let the Liberal party join Family First, One Nation, and Fred Nile (the parties that best match their policies) in obscurity.

When dreaming, dream big!

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Greens will be more powerful if they are a controlling minority party. I wouldn't vote for them if they agreed to form a coalition with any Liberal or Labour government. The point of voting Greens is that they're not Liberal or Labour as a close second priority behind their environmental & social issues focus.

As John Howard showed, anything that forms a coalition with a major party simply becomes part of that party.

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