The threat is clear.
If Labor loses its majority at next year’s election, Anthony Albanese could be forced to rely on the radical Greens as part of a power-sharing deal.
This could see the far-left minority party impose a series of extreme and highly unaffordable policies on Australia, from free education to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
Renters, whom the Greens say they support, would also be affected by their plan to eliminate negative gearing for investors who own more than one property.
Their supposedly utopian policies would worsen inflation, and ordinary Australians would be forced to suffer a political experiment that ignores basic economics.
But there is hope. The tide is turning against the Greens, and a new poll highlighting their decline in popularity is the biggest sign that their next electoral effort will be a failure.
Recent state and territory elections have shown the Greens to be politically vulnerable, with their extremist rhetoric putting off even opinionated left-wing voters.
Take, for example, the Greens’ identity politics fetish and how they claim to be gay and transgender advocates. Its leader Adam Bandt, however, has trouble condemning Hamas as a gay-hating terrorist organization.
The Greens can be defeated before they become a threat to Australia’s way of life (pictured, leader Adam Bandt, centre, with Greens state MP Jenny Leong and her deputy Mehreen Faruqi ).
This is an Islamist group so vile that it executed one of its own commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, on suspicion that he was homosexual.
In a tortured ABC Insiders television interview in May, Bandt struggled to denounce Hamas, despite multiple questions from host David Speers and the undeniable fact that last year it inflicted on Israel the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Israel is also the only nation in the Middle East to host gay pride rallies, a fact the Greens seem to conveniently overlook as they routinely march at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
As the scourge of anti-Semitism rises in Australia, Bandt also refuses to condemn hatred against Jewish people without putting Islamophobia in the same sentence.
Bandt has also repeatedly accused the Labor Party of “being complicit in genocide”, based on Australia exporting a part of the F-35 fighter jets used by Israel to bomb Hamas hideouts in Gaza.
His party has also shamefully backed blockades of Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville, in protest against Israel, and Prime Minister Grayndler’s headquarters are seen as a long-term target of the Greens.
State Greens member for Newtown Jenny Leong, whose seat overlaps with the premier, said at a public forum last year:The Jewish lobby and the Zionist lobby are infiltrating each and every aspect of what ethnic community groups are. She was accused of referencing an anti-Semitic cartoon and later apologized.
This was a month after, wearing a keffiyeh, Greens deputy federal leader Mehreen Faruqi posed in a photograph next to a banner reading “let’s keep the world clean” with an Israeli flag atop a container.
Federal Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi posed in a photograph next to a sign reading “let’s keep the world clean” with an Israeli flag atop a container.
With behavior like that from the Greens, it’s no surprise that a Resolve Political Monitor poll for nine newspapers showed Bandt with a net likability score of -15.
The Greens have a primary vote of just 11 percent, the lowest since February.
The political party has also seen its parliamentary numbers halve in the last election, falling from two to one in Queensland.
Last month, the Greens lost the state seat of South Brisbane after holding it for just one term.
There was an 11 per cent swing towards Labor after preferences in this inner-city electorate, despite former Prime Minister Steven Miles losing the general election with a seven per cent swing against his party .
South Brisbane overlaps with the federal seat of Griffith, held by Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather.
The result demonstrated the chances of the Greens being defeated when the Liberal National Party put them last, rather than the Labor Party, on principle.
In the nearby leafy seat of Maiwar, in inner Brisbane, the Greens were almost defeated with a 7.4 per cent lead against them in the primary election.
This electorate is also home to the University of Queensland and a similar change to Ryan’s federal seat overlay would see the Greens defeated there too.
The Greens are also vulnerable in the federal seat of Brisbane, where the party suffered a 2.9 per cent swing against them in the primary election in the Labor state seat of McConnel.
The Greens have backed the blockade of Albanese’s Marrickville electoral office in protest against Israel, and Prime Minister Grayndler’s headquarters is seen as a long-term target of the Greens.
Even Canberra, Australia’s most left-wing city, has turned against the Greens.
In the Australian Capital Territory, they lost two seats last month and their tally fell from six to four.
This occurred when two progressive independents were elected, including Thomas Emerson, a former adviser to Senator David Pocock and son of former Labor trade minister Craig Emerson.
The Greens are vulnerable if left-wing voters, disenchanted with the mainstream parties but uncomfortable with Green extremism, have a progressive alternative that also focuses on tackling climate change.
This is where teal independents come into play. The Teals in parliament could play the role the Australian Democrats used to play as a moderate left-wing minority party before the Greens replaced them.
Environmental values used to guide the Greens, and their former leader Bob Brown became an activist with the United Tasmanian Group during the 1970s to oppose plans to damming Lake Pedder.
They often talk about climate change causing global temperatures to rise, but it is the Greens who are fanning the flames of conflict in the Middle East, raising the political temperature.
But under Bandt’s leadership, the Greens have become a group more obsessed with boutique causes like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting companies that supply goods to Israel.
This BDS movement is so deluded that it has held protests in Australia outside Max Brenner cafes, harassing customers who were trying to enjoy hot chocolate.
The Greens now hope to take the seats of Wills and McNamara in inner Melbourne, held by Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns, who in July had “Zionism is Fascism” scrawled in his St Kilda constituency office.
They often talk about climate change causing global temperatures to rise, but the Greens are the ones fanning the flames of conflict in the Middle East, raising the political temperature.
It’s time for voters to pull out the hose in the next election.
