At the heart of the Brisbane Greenside was a strategy of combining electoral campaigning with social organising. Australian Greens’ Griffith campaign manager Liam Flenady outlines how they laid the groundwork for this breakthrough victory by the radical left.
Voters disenchanted with the cynical politics of the main parties were ripe for conversion – they just needed someone to knock on their door and listen
Long considered a conservative backwater by many progressives in the southern states, Queensland has once again demonstrated the reality is more complex than that.
While Labor is confident it can beat the Greens to the seat of Brisbane, any victory may be short-lived amid the party’s growth in the Queensland capital.