Richard Di Natale has spent the past three days driving an electric car up the North Coast of NSW. While Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten officially paused their election campaigning over the Easter weekend, the Greens leader has been protesting against the Adani mine in an anti-coal convoy.Greens leader Richard Di Natale at Parliament House."Climate change matters more than anything else at this election because it is, quite literally, an existential threat to humanity," he told.
Di Natale concedes the party is starting as the underdog in these additional races, but says they are all "potentially winnable". Recent polling by progressive think tank the Australia Institute suggests the most likely scenario is Labor and the Greens will manage to gather only 38 senators, and groups such as One Nation and Centre Alliance will also be key players when the new Senate takes effect come July 1.
That level of directness with the ALP has already begun, with Di Natale arguing Labor needs a far stronger approach to tackling climate change. Labor wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, based on 2005 levels. This is much higher than the 26 per cent proposed by the Coalition, but falls well short of the 63 to 82 per cent target the Greens are calling for.
The Greens have long been criticised for blocking then prime minister Kevin Rudd's carbon pollution reduction scheme in 2009 . When asked how willing the Greens would be to compromise with a Labor government on climate change, Di Natale says: "We will stop bad policy and we will champion good policy."
Di Natale says the party has experienced "huge growth" since he joined 19 years ago. This includes going from one senator in 2000 – with Bob Brown – to nine senators and one lower house MP in Federal Parliament as well as dozens of state MPs and almost 100 local government councillors.
Useless & does not keep which every mob party elected in check at all . Will say & do anything just to for the benefit of the Greens. Let’s hope they get and lose a few Senate seats .
If only they did actually offer policies related to the environment, instead of social policies and backing a “Big Australia” disaster.
There are amazing Greens representing us in government. I hope a lot more get in soon. There does seem to be a deliberate smear campaign in the media. I always wonder who is behind this?
The environment is high up the list, but the greens are no longer seen as the answer, or even part of the solution.
We can all help the environment and come together to make a difference. We can press on our networks to all apply brains and our compassionate selves to get this done. And this is not a rational issue. It comes from beyond our ego at the space of the heart.
Good
they r imploding Members in Melb n NSW r brawling that is the Greens Bullying n undermining each other Singh resigned due to bullying
Ta ta Dr.😂
Surely they have to take a hammering, their fanaticism, socialism, hypocrisy & bigotry have run their course through our latest parliamentary terms. They've had their oxygen, time to push them & hold them under the water. Enough with their reckless negligent nonsense.
And i hope everyone of the usless beggars is shown the door
Great to hear! The quicker the Greens go the way of the Australian Democrats the better! And please don’t re-elect that idiot SHY!
When you look at their candidates, you can see why. Absolute numb skulls.
Yet the Greens will receive fewer votes nationwide than in 2016. That says a lot about The Greens.
When will you uneducated wankers just believe climate change has been happening for 4.5 billion years and nothing we do will stop it. Add to that those with the CO2 phobia Australian contribution to world wide addition is near zero.
Where is the evidence that there is higher public concern for the environment?
The indoctrination of the masses.
Australia’s environment is the best it has been.
Hey RichardDiNatale ! I told ya.
One nation will wipe them out. The greens are toxic to this country
Let’s hope they get wiped like a baby’s bum
Tim my friend they all lie......the real danger to Australia are the Greens not the Libs or Labor
The Liberals face a tougher test
The Greens are anti everything....cut back to military spending.....cut our ties with the US....open borders.....this is nuts.....these guys are currently holding 9 Senate seats.....telling Shorten what his policy must be.....are we living in a parallel universe here
Thats because the Greens are no longer a party for the environment. They are for socialism, open borders and a UN led world government. The scam is up.
Whenever I answer a political questionnaire about my beliefs I end up between greens and AustralianLabor but I regard greens as Australia’s Monster Raving Loony Party so only AustralianLabor remains
Only change I see in the coming election is Greens change........your got too many bitter gay people bitching.
it took only 1 wrong move to destroy the australian democrats (meg lees and the GST), can only see the same happening to the greens by going that step too far and too quickly. knocking back Rudds CPRS was the start of the rot, even though it wasnt perfect
Greens need to go the way of the Democrats .... Become non existent.
they are a totally anti Australian group. How anyone can vote for them is beyond belief
Greens are dangerous to our way of life in Australia
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