Submitted 3 weeks ago by jonesy@aussie.zone to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/greens-leader-adam-bandt-defeated-sarah-witty/105258468
I’m out of the loop on Greens party structure. The below is from Wikipedia:
On Saturday 12 November 2005 at the national conference in Hobart, the Australian Greens abandoned their long-standing tradition of having no official leader and approved a process whereby a parliamentary leader could be elected by the Greens Parliamentary Party Room.
Are there no other leadership structures?
Members get to vote for candidates in preselections and for the state council and other positions, but the MPs elect the leader.
What’s going on in this electorate?
He had a reasonable margin last go round?
A lot of that was eaten into by boundary changes. As I understand, Bandt lost the hipster suburbs of Fitzroy and Brunswick which are major Greens areas (reflected in the Greens great performance in Wills, which absorbed those areas) and his electorate gained some southern Labor booths. Combined with a smaller swing against him everywhere else, he was in trouble.
The Mrs says it’s not because of gerrymandering, but simple redistricting due to population changes, but surely whoever was in charge knew, right?
2 Leaders in 1 election? Madre Mia!
Three if Jackie loses her senate seat too.
Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Hanson-Young as replacement? Maybe I’m biased cause she’s from SA, but she has also represented the party at the federal level for by far the longest (even longer than Bandt).
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
She’s also really strongly hated by a lot of the non-Greens population.
As a Queenslander, my support would be for Larissa Waters, partly because fuck yeah Qld, but also because her public image is much more positive.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Yes, but they are never voting for greens anyway. She is divisive, more because she’s ruffled feathers and had campaigns against her. She is competent and recognisable.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah I think she has that Greta thunberg divisive reaction.
Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I think even some Greens voters dislike her, although maybe she plays better with younger voters now. I would like to see if her approach changes as leader, though.