As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia?

Because the average Skippy is still a racist, unintelligent simpleton

There are progressive pockets of the population, but even in the heralded cities, as soon as you get away from the inner suburbs, you're deep in the territory of the halfwits

I made a move to somewhere considered regional Australia, and the majority of the people around me are simple hicks who constantly reinforce the stereotypes they get upset by

But it's quiet and peaceful

Same reason the proletariat want to watch sports matches, drink, gamble and whore rather than spend their time in theory study groups and people’s committees: what Marx called false consciousness.

What's the point? They have the sorts of policies that wouldn't actually work if they had any power, thankfully they don't usually get anywhere near having any. Hyphenated surnames are over-represented in their ranks. They are elitist, latte-sipping city dwellers who wouldn't know a hard day's work if it punched them in the face.

Other than that, they're not bad.

Because A) left wing progressives are massive puritans who look down on everyone who isn't as puritan as them B) The Greens played their cards a little too hard the last time they got into power (and in 2010)

You can't play kingmaker, somehow end up looking like the left wing version of the coalition, blocking labor from getting actual work done and then expect to be handed a gold medal for your performance

Bonus rounds: C) people will put up with transgenders but they certainly don't feel as good as they did about supporting gays and lesbians which was quite frankly straight forward in comparison

Most Australians also absolutely detest Islam because it is an extremist backwards ideology

Funnily enough this has resulted in the greens trying to juggle 2 competing extremist ideologies at the same time ultimately appealing to few outside of those camps who can somehow do the mental gymnastics to make it work

There's loads more reasons but tbh if I was looking to vote for someone just as dysfunctional as one nation I'd still rather vote for the greens, at least the economy will die while we get some public housing to live in

Analysts say the Greens have failed to make inroads with disaffected working-class voters.

Polanski has managed to resonate with working-class voters in the UK, picking up the traditional Labour seat of Gorton and Denton in a by-election with a former plumber candidate but in Australia, the Greens are still mainly seen as a party of inner-city elites, Samaras says.

actually it's because the area is full of muslims and the greens ran a campaign appealing to muslims

The UK's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, a contest that descended into accusations of sectarianism. The Gaza war was a hotbed issue.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2026/02/27/green-party-gorton-denton-by-election/

Which only works in areas with lots of muslims, which we can see here in the England Local election results 2026 a short time later coming 5th out of 6 groups and 5th out of 5 major parties

https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2026/england/results

anyway good times, it's not really politics unless there's some catastrophe of a party threatening to ruin everything