It isn't easy being Green
Democracy has spoken.
So Australia went to the polls this past Saturday, and the centre-left Labor Party have secured a resounding victory, securing a second term in office—beating their opponents, the Coalition (centre-right) Party in a two-party preferred system.
Final votes are still rolling it, so the exact number of seats Labor will hold will not be finalised for a few days, however a large swing to the left was undeniable.
Personally I don’t think it will be catastrophic under another Labor government. The truth is there is not a huge difference between our two major parties. Labor ran an excellent campaign leading up the election, and it clearly made a difference. The interesting thing to watch now however, will be whether they can uphold their many election promises. I think the tide will turn very quickly if they don’t.
There have been some very interesting take outs from the voting swings, none more so than the loss of seats for the Australian Greens Party.
The third most influential political party in Australia is the Greens, led by Adam Bandt, the Australians Greens had historic success in the last election in 2022, winning four important seats, giving them significant power in parliament.
For decades, the Greens were seen as a one-dimensional party dedicated to protecting the environment and fighting climate change. But under Adam Bandt’s leadership, the Greens have changed. Over the last 18 months in particular, climate messaging has taken a back seat to a more socialist position, and a strong focus on Gaza, a region thousands of kilometres away from Australia.
The Greens have evolved from a tree-hugging party to a extremist left-wing socialist party that supports unchecked immigration and stands with terrorist supporters.
Australia's first female Muslim Senator Muhreen Faruqi for the Greens has repeatedly lashed politicians for fanning the flames of division claiming racism and islamophobia, but happily smiles for a photo op next to a pro Palestinian supporters with a sign “Keep the world clean” sign depicting throwing Jews into the bin like rubbish.
Pakistani born Faruqi emigrated from Pakistan in 1992 but clearly did not leave her Jew-hatred at home. And as the deputy leader of the Australian Greens party, has no doubt had influence on the extreme direction that the party has taken.
So here is where things get interesting. Much of the Jewish community and Zionists supporters have been unhappy with the Labor Party’s handling of the Israel / Gaza war. From Penny Wong, the deputy Prime Minister repeatedly calling for a two-state solution, but offering no solution of how to achieve one, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fence sitting for a year and a half as to not alienate the Muslim seats, the result has been an alarming 700 per cent increase in antisemitic attacks in Australia.
But if you ask the pro Palestinian camp, they will tell you that Labor has aided the genocide of Gaza, despite the Labor government approving more Visas to Gaza refugees over the last 18 months than any other country in the world. In a two party preferred system, it is clear to even blind Freddy that the left Labor Party are far more empathetic to the plight of Gaza, yet for the Greens and the terrorist sympathisers they have not done enough.
So now we heat up the popcorn and watch as the Greens start to implode. As I write this, Adam Bandt the Greens leader is fighting to keep his seat of Melbourne, a seat that he has held since 2017, to Labor's Sarah Witty. And it would be fair to assume that those who once voted for Bandt, in this election swung to Witty.
Maybe running on a platform of supporting a terrorist regime doesn’t appeal to everyday Aussie voters. Late last year Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi let rip at the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, regarding Australia not pursuing an investigation of the IDF. She asked ‘Wong’ (the daughter of a Malaysian Chinese father) if it was because she thought “brown lives weren’t valuable”.
My question to Faruqi is, ‘why she doesn’t seem to think Israeli lives are valuable—brown or otherwise?’ And why are the lives of people thousands of miles away more important to her than the constituents of her own country? Maybe someone needs to remind Faruqi that she lives in Australia now, and that this is her country, and the good of Australia needs to be her primary concern.
Not content with Australia democratically electing the Labor Party with a majority, the pro Palestinian camp have launched a post election tirade, promising to continue globalising the intifada, and causing as much social division as possible. Because fuck what the majority want right?
Antoinette Lattouf, who once described herself as a journalist and ‘diversity advocate’ has spent the last year and a half denigrating the Zio’s and suing the ABC after they sacked her for going rogue and ranting on socials about Israel. Some of Lattouf’s best outbursts include proposing that “Israeli soldiers had used rape as a weapon of war,” —without once condemning the rapes by Hamas. She had also said the “Israeli military machine … is driven by bloodthirsty, extremist men who want to justify the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians”. With no irony.
True to form, she launched a fund raiser to help her with court costs, while rocking up to court in designer labels such as Louis Vuitton and Jimmy Choo. The day after Labor was re-elected by Australia, Lattouf posted “Handy reminder: Albanese’ Labor government is, at best, complacent, at worst complicit in Israel’s genocide. Gaza is being bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed. Voting our morally bankrupt leaders isn’t enough—we must still hold power to account for the most vulnerable.”
No mention of the hostages or the 1200, mostly innocent civilians, that were slaughtered and raped that kicked of this war. No surprise that Faruqi is right there by her side.
You know what is really dangerous for democracy Mehreen and Antoinette? Trying to pass off your heavily biased opinions as truth. As a so-called journalist, and a Senator of the Australian parliament, we should be able to expect some small level of objectivity.
So while the Greens attack Labor and the pro Palestinian Lobby attack everyone that doesn’t say ‘genocide’ at least 20 times a day, the Greens look like they have lost their seats in the lower house of Parliament. Unfortunately many Australians, particularly young Aussies, are still under the belief that the Australian Greens are a party that care about the environment, so they will still have some power in the Upper House.
However if they want to continue to gain rather than lose in the Australian parliament, they may need to rethink their foreign-driven agenda if they are to appeal to the majority of everyday Aussies. Even Bandt’s promises to the Muslim voters and demand action on Gaza led to naught in the 2025 election.
Ironically, its is the Labor Party that sits politically the closest to Palestinian Lobby’, yet they worked tirelessly to convince Muslim voters to unseat Labor ministers and politicians in heartland seats over a perceived inaction on the issue of Gaza.
The result was neither of the two main independent Muslim candidates in western Sydney were elected. The Greens lost two seats in Brisbane, previously held by Max Chandler-Mather and Stephen Bates and Adam Bandt is currently holding his breath to see if he still has a job at the end of the week.
The minor party had pledged to continue calls for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories and urged Israel to halt what they describe as an ongoing genocide — an accusation rejected by the state of Israel and anyone that has a rudimentary understanding of the word genocide.
It appears that Australia is more interested in social cohesion than constant division and guilting, so that people of all race and ethnicities can feel safe in this country.
Democracy has spoken. Prime Minister Alabanese its over to you now to steer our country into the second quarter of the 21st Century. Time will tell.
You forgot to mention the Green's extreme stance on transgender issues.
"One struggle, one fight,
Palestine, Trans Rights!"
I wish someone could explain to me how these two causes are linked.
The Green Party in Australia reminds me of Greta Thunberg. She famously parrots the words, "No climate justice on occupied lands". It beats me what this means, but the symbiotic relationship between the Greens and the anti Israel groups appears to be a common thread in many countries.
The Green Party in the UK became the first one in England and Wales to condemn Israel as an apartheid state. The Green Party leaders in Canada endorsed the Vote Palestine campaign in the recent Canadian elections, supporting the condemnation of Israel's so called genocide in Palestine.
Various "human rights" organizations, like Human Rights Watch, decry what Israel has done in Gaza as "ecocide", literally killing the environment. This has fuelled the venom of Green Parties around the world against Israel.
Strangely enough, there has not been, to my knowledge, in recent times, any condemnation of another state for perpetrating ecocide when defending itself against an unjustified attack.The key to all this is that the visceral dislike of Israel, and by extension, the Jews that support Israel, underpins all of this vituperation mixed with supposed concern for the environment.