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As Labor lifts in the opinion polls, the 2025 Federal Election is back to being a neck and neck race to the May 3 ballot.
This means the major parties are right where the minors and Independents want them.
When Australians are unsure about which of the two options they prefer, they often start exploring a third option.
This is why the Liberal Party’s friends in the media have rushed to kickstart smear campaigns against the Indenpedent teal challengers who are looking most likely at snatching blue-ribbon seats.
The Greens are hoping to continue building on their best ever election result in 2022.
Last time they won a Senator in every state, and quadrupled their representatives in Parliament’s lower house by snatching three Federal electorates in inner-city Brisbane.
Prior to this, Federal Greens leader Adam Bandt had basically operated as an Independent in the seat of Melbourne for a decade. However, the party is now several seats short of having more lower house MPs than the Nationals.
But potential gains are of no use unless they can hold on to their Queensland MPs in Brisbane, Ryan and Griffith.
Griffith in particular is an electorate that Labor desperately wants to win back, as the seat once held by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. As the campaign ramps up, the ALP machine has been throwing the kitchen sink at ousting the extremely popular Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather – and in turn ridding Parliament House of his very dangerous ideas regarding the housing crisis.
The two seats the Greens seem most likely to win are Wills in inner Melbourne and the hippy belt of Richmond on the NSW coast.
However, pollster admit there are up to 10 electorate in the ‘to watch’ list when it comes to possibly Greens gains.
But for there to be another Greenslide to happen in 2025, the Australian Greens will need to be putting forward their very best talent.
See below for the 7 Types Of Greens Candidates Currently Campaigning To Get Elected In Progressive Electorates:
Likes: Tasmania
Dislikes: Talking about property
Motivation: To become the most hated man at the Melbourne Club
Political Priority: Saving the Tarkine
Biggest Hurdle: A moderate Liberal opponent
2. Former Uni Politics Nerd Turned Suburban Earth Mum
Likes: A cup of tea and an almond croissant
Dislikes: The male, pale and stale political establishment
Motivation: To spend 20 years voting against bills in the Senate
Political Priority: Crushing Peter Dutton
Biggest Hurdle: Her famous temper
3. Single Issue Free Palestine Activist
Likes: Palestine
Dislikes: US-funded Israeli Imperialism
Motivation: A Free Palestine
Political Priority: A Free Palestine
Biggest Hurdle: Her opinions regarding the other Greens policies
4. The 73-Year-Old Resin-Jewellery Professional
Likes: Writer’s Festivals
Dislikes: Offshore Detention
Motivation: To save the Great Barrier Reef
Political Priority: Putting Nuclear power to bed
Biggest Hurdle: Possible JK Rowling sympathies
5. Disillusioned Labor Left White Boy
Likes: The CFMEU
Dislikes: Culture wars
Motivation: The Labor Party going soft
Political Priority: Getting young people into homes
Biggest Hurdle: Internal jealousy over his natural leadership qualities
6. Working Class Indigenous Prodigy That Intimidates Adam Bandt
Likes: SZA
Dislikes: Cops and rednecks
Motivation: Very real and concerning statistics
Political Priority: Raising the age of criminal responsibility
Biggest Hurdle: A history of sternly worded social media posted
7. Completely Unvetted Gen-Z Pansexual With 15 Hours Daily Screen Time
Likes: Publicly calling out own housemates on social media
Dislikes: Anything that requires more than 15 seconds of attention
Motivation: An unidentifiable source of middle class rage
Political Priority: Abolishing archaic gendered terminology like ‘mum’ and ‘dad’
Biggest Hurdle: The voters
