Another reason why the Greens vote has not risen

September 9, 2026

Kos Samaras provides some arguments for the Greens’ lack of vote share but misses one very important point: from the 1980s onwards the unremitting hostility of the mainstream media has been turned on the Greens. This bias against the Greens has been far more rigorous and effective than its bias against Labor. The Greens are painted as both dangerous radicals and hypocritical, incompetent clowns, so many people have never even considered voting for them. I suspect the vigour of this campaign is because the media’s paymasters recognise Green policies as the greatest danger to the status quo.