Greens Polling Well in Pending Australian Elections

Matching the disgust the British electorate have with both the Tories and New (religious lapdog) Labour in the recent Hartlepool by-election, there is significant rejection of the failed “Laberal” policies in Australia, with party polling showing exceptional support for the Greens.

Matching the disgust the British electorate have with both the Tories and New (religious lapdog) Labour in the recent Hartlepool by-election, there is significant rejection of the failed “Laberal” policies in Australia, with party polling showing exceptional support for the Greens.

The British anti-Iraq war Liberal Democrats polled exceptionally well in Hartlepool and the Australian Greens have also demonstrated a consistent policy position against the war. Compared to U.K New Labour, at least the Australian Labour Party has a reasonably consistent policy of opposing the war, extending across two opposition leaders.

So support for the Greens can not be entirely due to their unwavering anti-Iraq war stance. There are other policies such as the opposition to the Australian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement which the Greens have championed, together with the Greens Senators principled outrage at Bush during his visit for the illegal detention of the Australian Guantanamo Bay detainees, but it may also be the collapse of the Australian Democrats into factional infighting (exposing their policy inconsistencies of being anti-union on occasions and purporting to be progressive on others). My assessment is that to many observers, the Greens Senate representatives have remained on-message, principled and straight talking, eschewing opportunism (unlike the Aus. Democrats) which is earning them higher polling numbers as their party has matured.

Mercifully I will be spared Australian electoral TV advertisements (only to experience the U.S. Presidential elections instead), so I’m looking forward to reports of such from Aus-based readers in the last week of the election.