Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late.
Key Points:
- Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late.
- A current flashpoint is Labor’s housing policy, or, as the Greens would describe it, Labor’s failure to square up to a full-blown rental affordability crisis.
- But it faces a difficult future with the Greens flagging they will join with the Coalition in the Senate to vote it down, insisting it lacks ambition.
- Such bitterness might seem curious given both Albanese and Wong hail from Labor’s left, the faction closest in values to the Greens party.
- For its part, the Greens bristle at being labelled “ideologically pure” – a tag clearly intended in the pejorative sense.
- This succeeded despite the Greens grumbling that the mechanism amounted to trying to put the climate fire out while pouring petrol on it.
- “The Greens are an anti-racist party, the Greens are an anti-hate party,” he told Radio National Breakfast following the allegations.