THE pro-conservative lobby group Advance Australia says its successful campaign to stop the Greens regaining the inner-city Victorian state seat of Prahran needs to be repeated in the federal election expected to be announced soon by Anthony Albanese.
Advance Australia spokeswoman Sandra Bourke, a former Federal Police officer and member of the National Crime Authority, said she worked alongside volunteers in the recent Prahran by-election and their one goal was to stop the Greens.
The primary vote of the Greens’ Angelica di Camillo (36.19%) was equal to those for the Liberals’ Rachel Westaway, who won on preference distribution. Labor did not field a candidate but a former Labor MP for the seat Tony Lupton stood as an independent, gaining 12.72%.
“What I saw on the ground only reinforced what I already knew: this new breed of radical Greens are a serious threat to Australia. They’re not who they used to be,” Ms Bourke says in a message sent to Australian supporters.
“They’re dividing Australians by race, class, religion, and age, pitting regions against cities, workers against business owners, and entire communities against each other. If they gain the balance of power, which they’re desperate to do, all Australians will suffer.
“With a federal election looming, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Your vote will shape our economy, our freedoms, and our way of life for decades to come. For Australia’s future, put the Greens last.”
Ms Bourke points out that in every election Labor does a preference swap deal with the Greens, which means more Greens get elected. There are currently 15 Greens sitting in Canberra, four in the House of Representatives and 11 in the Senate.
Cairns News believes the Greens main strategy is to force the Labor Party to adhere to the global anti-carbon environmentalist agenda and the so-called transition to renewable energy. They have largely succeeded in that with Chris Bowen pushing the wind/solar/battery agenda.
But the Greens won’t stop there. There are so fanatically anti-carbon they don’t even want gas as an energy source in Australia. But without gas-fired generation back-up wind and solar farms are basically unreliable suppliers of sporadic bursts of electricity that can only be briefly backed up by battery banks.
An unreliable, sporadic energy supply is the recipe for economic dysfunction and disaster – tastes of which have already been experienced in “all renewable” South Australia where extended blackouts destroyed tonnes of frozen food and disrupted services across the state, which not coincidentally, has Australia’s most expensive electricity.
Ms Bourke said she had heard it firsthand on the streets of Melbourne, that many Labor supporters mistakenly believe the Greens are just “a more progressive version of Labor”.
“They’re not. This radical wave of Greens has already dragged Australia to extremes,” she said. She listed the following points as major issues with the party:
- The relentless pro-Hamas protesters on our city streets and universities, stoking antisemitism and hate crimes.
- Their plan for soaring taxes that punish hard working Australians, including their proposed inheritance and superannuation taxes.
- Skyrocketing power bills thanks to their destructive and impossible 100% renewable energy policies that will decimate our economy.
- Increased immigration while housing and infrastructure are already at capacity.
- Rising crime, rising imprisonment rates on the back of escalating domestic violence, sexual offenses, and theft.
“This is not the Australia we know or want,” she said.
Ms Bourke said the loss of the Greens in Prahran was significant because they had held the state seat for 10 years.
Green MP for the seat, Sam Hibbins resigned from the party last November after admitting to “having an affair with a staff member”, which is apparently a breach of Green party room rules. We wonder if the same rule would apply to a non-heterosexual relationship.
“They thought it was safe. They were wrong. Not only did the community stand up but both sides of politics united against them. When you put the Greens last they lose,” said Ms Bourke.
“The Greens’ influence is the single biggest threat to Australia’s future. By putting them very last on the ballot paper, you can stop them from gaining power, from forcing their extreme agenda onto the country, and from dragging our nation further into radicalism.
“This isn’t just about politics. This is about our country, our future, and our values. Please put the Greens last.”
