Greens Pledge to Thwart Liberal Minority Government
With a minority government increasingly likely after the next election, the Greens have categorically ruled out supporting a Liberal-led coalition.
While a recent poll by AFP signals that Australians expect a minority government led by the Liberals in the next federal election, the Greens have been quick to assert they will not be part of it, vowing to block any path for Peter Dutton to The Lodge.
“We will be the insurance in the parliament to stop that,” Greens Communications spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
Hanson-Young warned that if the Liberal-National Coalition musters enough crossbench support to govern, the Greens would hold them accountable in the Senate.
“We’ll stop Peter Dutton from pushing people’s power prices nuclear. We will stop his dangerous attack on renewables and his culture wars that want to drive division in this country rather than unity,” the senator said.
‘Fired Up’ Greens Ready to Fight
Hanson-Young declared the Greens are “fired up” and “ready to go whenever the prime minister decides to call the election.”
“We are living in a world where our climate is getting worse. Our environment is on the brink of collapse,” Hanson-Young said.
“We’re losing native species and habitats and natural spaces at a rate like never before, and we have a huge cost of living crisis that’s impacting very vulnerable groups within our community, and we need solutions.”
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She pointed to polling data suggesting that neither Labor nor the Liberals can achieve a majority government.
“It’s important that parties like the Greens are there, front and centre, giving a voice to the community, a voice to the environment, and will be prepared to hold Labor to account and Peter Dutton to account.”
Concerns Over Elon Musk and Social Media Influence
She also expressed concern that Elon Musk, the owner of X and a high-profile backer of Donald Trump, will “start platforming Dutton more than Anthony Albanese.”
She said the alliance between the owners of social media and other tech companies and Trump was “worrying” and “you can already see Elon Musk thinking that he wants to flex his political muscle now outside the US and into across the world.”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook owner Meta, had bowed to Trump so he could go on “making big profits at the expense of community safety,” she said, referencing the announcement that the platform would no longer employ fact-checkers.
“What Zuckerberg has announced is to rip the rug of any type of decency out from underneath users and allow … whoever is the loudest, whoever is the angriest, whoever is the most outrageous, to have their views heard.”
