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With the 2025 Federal election just around the corner, the Australian Greens are hoping to not only retain their three lower house MPs in Brisbane, but also rapidly expand their vote in Queensland.
This kind of left-wing political strategy is no longer considered a delusion, in fact, it’s actually considered quite realistic.
Even the most frustrated major party powerbrokers would have to reluctantly agree that it is far more likely for the Greens to increase their number of Queensland MPs this election than it would be for the Liberal Party or Labor.
This is the result of a decade-long plan by the party’s Queensland-based operatives, who have strategically ditched the holier than thou brand of champagne socialism, and have instead embraced the state’s unique brand of colloquialism.
Until the 2022 Federal Election, the Greens presence in Parliament’s lower house was limited to just Adam Bandt – an inner-city Melbourne MP who was viewed as more of a progressive independent than a party representative.
However, that has all changed in 2022. The Greens are now a major player with four MPs, and for some fucken reason – their heartland is 2000 kilometres north of the only other seat they’ve held since the party was founded in Melbourne.
There were many theories for this surprise result. Queensland voters put it down to the fact that the home-grown Queensland Greens are far more palatable than those terrace house yuppies who usually yell at them through the TV.
However, the most obvious factor would be that all three electorates are constantly experiencing once-in-a-hundred-year climate-change-aided natural disasters every 6 months – and the idea of free mental and dental care is actually something that appeals a lot more to voters than the ability to blow their superannuation on a quarter of a house deposit.
And it seems in 2025, they are leaning even harder into their Queenslandness.
In what can only be horrifying to their colleagues in Sydney and Melbourne, the Queensland Greens have employed former State Of Origin legend Billy Moore to be their party’s official campaign spokesperson.
In billboards and TV advertisements right across the state, the former NRL star can be seen shouting GREENSLANDER!!! alongside Greens party logos and slogans.
This bold new strategy of appealing to normal people in their own language without appearing patronising has seen the betting markets shift considerably. The 2025 Greenslide is predicted to win eight seats in light industrial and outer-metropolitan Quieensland.
