What will become of Australia?

September 9, 2026

There’s another way to look at The Greens’ static numbers. Lack of money to extend their advertising reach, lack of personnel because of party structure unlike community independents, and so many poorly educated people. The major flaw in Amy Remeikis’ otherwise excellent book Where it all went wrong is that it shows how Howard demolished secondary and tertiary education via funding decisions but does not examine the consequences that continue to this day. So the loudest, best funded political voices get heard by a lot of people who, through no fault of their own, have never learned to critique what they hear, see and read.

The Greens are the anti-racist party, be it support for migrants or, latterly, Palestinians. Greens fail to cut through in their unequal battle with Lib/Nat/Lab/PHON who, between them, have encouraged the level of racism from which Australia suffers. The less well educated, usually less well off, will thus abandon the major parties on economic grounds but find their home with PHON, not Greens, because they have been taught so well to be racist. They’re not blaming the billionaires for their plight, they’re perversely, unwittingly flocking to those who will keep them poor.