Greens

Green political signage which mysteriously appeared overnight in Melbourne urging voters to "put Labor last...

The opposition alleged the signs were put up by the Liberal Party campaign team, and claimed the signs misleadingly impersonate the Greens party. After Labor wrote to the Australian Electoral Commission and lodged a court bid this morning, the Federal Court granted an injunction allowing the AEC to remove the signs which the opposition party says were unauthorised and "deliberately misleading". The deceptive signs – similar in style to official Greens party corflutes – turned up in the electorate of Higgins, a hotly contested seat inVictoria, sparking outrage from the opposition and Greens.

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The loss of Mr Snowdon’s personal vote could be a deciding factor. Greens Faces a tight contest in his outer-metropolitan seat.

Labor has gone to the Federal Court seeking an urgent injunction over fake Greens signs they claim were setup by Liberal Party campaigners across Victoria.

Polls have just opened and the Liberals are up to their usual Election Day dirty tricks again. Stream more election news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. The Greens warned voters to be aware of "fake Liberal signs" and said they have referred the matter to police. Labor has gone to the Federal Court seeking an urgent injunction over fake Greens signs they claim were setup by Liberal Party campaigners across Victoria. Labor has gone to the Federal Court seeking an urgent injunction over fake Greens signs they claim were setup by Liberal Party campaigners across Victoria.

The Federal Court has ordered that signs designed to look like Greens signage be removed from polling booths in Higgins.

The party then filed an urgent injunction in the Federal Court. Clay Lucasis a senior reporter, and has worked at The Age since 2005, covering urban affairs, transport, state politics, workplace relations, aged care and the pandemic. It declined to comment following the Federal Court decision. Justice Mark Moshinsky gave Labor’s lawyers at Holding Redlich permission to remove the signs. Labor said in a statement that the signs were “electoral fraud in breach of Commonwealth electoral law”. Allen holds Higgins by just 2.6 per cent.

The Federal Court has ordered the removal of election signs in the marginal Melbourne seat of Higgins that Labor has called "misleading" and a breach of ...

"LIES BUSTED: the Libs are trying to put up fake signs in Higgins. Already reported to AEC & police," the Greens said in a post on Twitter, adding instructions on how to vote for the party and preference Labor over the Liberal Party. The party said they believe the Liberal Party is behind the posters "impersonating the Australian Greens, and asking Greens voters to put Labor last". The Australian Labor Party filed the urgent injunction application earlier on Saturday, alleging the signs were installed at polling booths in Higgins to confuse voters and mislead them into believing the signs were created by the Greens party.

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Its website appeared to have copied and pasted content from the Victorian Liberal party, the court heard. The Australian Electoral Commission said it was investigating whether the authorisations on the signs were valid and whether it misled voters about the act of casting a vote. The court heard the material was authorised by someone named “Hendrick Fourey” and a group named “Business Owners and Contractors Union”, apparently based on a vast industrial block on Monterey Road, Dandenong. Labor said Fourey did not appear to be a real person and was not on the electoral roll.

Greens leader Adam Bandt promises his party will ensure a stable and progressive government if they hold the balance of power after the election.

If the Greens do hold the balance of power on the crossbench, they would approach the parliament with an open mind, Mr Bandt pledged. "A big part of our approach has been to say, 'We want to change the government too' and you vote Greens to change the government." A parliamentary balance of power held by the Greens would preference stable, effective and progressive government, party leader Adam Bandt says.

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"We didn't go small target. Postal and pre-poll votes are still to be counted. "Part of the challenge for Labor in the inner-city seats, and I have to contend with the Greens in my seat too, is very affluent people tend to vote Green because they don't have a worry in the world," he told the Nine Network.

Leader Adam Bandt celebrates 'massive mandate' and says Greens are willing to talk to Anthony Albanese if Labor fails to win majority government.

The Greens also achieved swings in excess of 9% in some regional seats in other states. “We’ve just had three years of droughts and then fires and now floods and floods again. “Let’s be very clear, we are only just getting started,” he said. “The Greens are on track for our best result ever,” Bandt said. In the inner Melbourne seat of Macnamara, Greens candidate Steph Hodgins-May had received a 7.2% swing and was trailing 31.4% to Labor’s 32.5% with just over half of the vote counted. Well tonight, we raised those expectations.” In the northern NSW seat of Richmond, Greens candidate Mandy Nolan was leading the primary vote at 29.4% with just shy of half of the vote counted. There was also a 6.6% swing to the Greens in Brisbane. With almost 60% of the vote counted, Greens candidate Stephen Bates had 28.5% of primary votes, ahead of Labor and just behind sitting LNP member Trevor Evans. There was an 11.9% swing to the Greens in Griffith, previously held by Labor with a margin of 2.9%. Greens candidate Max Chandler-Mather was leading with 35.6% of the primary vote, with almost 60% of votes counted. There was an 11.2% swing to the Greens in Ryan with 54.1% of the vote counted. The Greens launched a huge door-knocking effort in Queensland in a bid to pick up inner-city seats in Brisbane, pushing on climate inaction in the face of the floods that have devastated the region. The Greens have won the inner Brisbane seat of Ryan, held Bandt’s own seat of Melbourne and were ahead in the counts for the seats of Brisbane (held by the Liberal National party) and Griffith (Labor’s Terri Butler).

If Saturday's count points to the final result, Anthony Albanese's government will not face a hostile upper house.

The United Australia Party is leading in Victoria and One Nation is leading in South Australia, but their lead is narrow and could easily change as more votes are counted. While the successes for minor parties and independents in the House of Representatives were more dramatic, a record crossbench in the Senate may prove almost equally significant. The Greens are also set to take Labor’s third seat in New South Wales, the vulnerable seat that Kristina Keneally vacated to make her ill-fated run for Fowler. There are still a lot of Senate votes yet to be counted, including all prepoll votes. That third Labor seat also comes at the expense of the Liberals. Labor and the Greens will disagree on plenty of issues, but both will have an incentive to ensure success in the next term.

The Greens are projected to win two Queensland seats in the House of Representatives, taking one from Labor and the Liberals respectively.

"We didn't go small target. Postal and pre-poll votes are still to be counted. "Part of the challenge for Labor in the inner-city seats, and I have to contend with the Greens in my seat too, is very affluent people tend to vote Green because they don't have a worry in the world," he told the Nine Network.

Seats of Griffith, Ryan, even Brisbane possibly toppling to the Greens will make Queensland the political heartland of the party.

Stephen Bates is also polling well in Brisbane where incumbent Trevor Evens has conceded. This has translated to Griffith and Ryan being likely pickups, while Brisbane is also in sight. On Saturday night, with 48.3% of the vote counted, the Greens had received 13.2% of the vote with a 2.9% swing towards them.

The Greens Party has seen an increase in popularity this election. Here's what they stand for and the policies they'll likely be bringing to parliament.

The Greens plan to fund their policies by greatly increasing the tax rate of billionaires and big corporations. One of the poster policies for the Greens this election was to include dental in Medicare subsidies. The party also pledges to amend labour laws to increase the power of workers, legislate against insecure work and increase wages. Key in the lead-up to the election was the cost of childcare, and the Greens support free childcare access seven days a week. A key housing policy the Greens spruik is to build one million new homes across Australia to decrease the pressure on the housing market. In a win that was never really in question, Greens leader Adam Bandt won his seat of Melbourne. He has held the seat for more than a decade, and took the reins of the party after Richard DiNatale stepped down in 2020.

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"We built a broad coalition for that policy and we would have liked to have picked up more climate-conscious voters in the city, so we'll have to work out why that hasn't been the case." He said the Greens had work to do "to ensure that we come to an understanding that means we can deliver stable, effective and progressive government in this country with a new prime minister". Mr Chandler-Mather said the Greens' result in Brisbane was a "beacon of hope" for Australians "that you do not have to settle for the political status quo". The LNP won 23 seats out of 30 in the state in 2019, and while there has been a swing towards Labor in most seats, it was not enough for the party under Anthony Albanese to make up any ground. The Greens' Max Chandler-Mather is ahead in Griffith and Stephen Bates is also in front in the seat of Brisbane. The Greens have won the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Ryan on the back of a massive swing to the party in inner-Brisbane, which has put them in a strong position to claim two more.