Acting Greens Leader Senator McKim offered the following comments about the party\u2019s leadership process and the next term of Parliament:
\u201cYesterday was a sad and emotional day for everyone in our Party Room, our Party and the broader movement we represent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur vote held up, but we lost seats on a rise in Labor\u2019s vote that was a result of Australians rejecting Peter Dutton\u2019s Trumpian agenda rather than any kind of endorsement for Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLosing Adam on top of losing Stephen and Max is a bitter blow. They are outstanding people who have contributed so much to our movement.\u201d
\u201cHowever our party is bigger than any of us, and we are ready to get to work on the critical issues facing our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur party room will meet on Thursday to decide our next leader and leadership team. There are a number of incredible people who would make great leaders of our party, and I have absolute confidence that whoever is chosen will lead us strongly and well.\u201d
Senator McKim said that the Greens\u2019 strong vote in the Senate looks like it has put the party into sole balance of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Prime Minister\u2019s instructions that the Senate should get out of his way reek of arrogance and hubris.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have been given a mandate to use our position in the Senate to hold Labor to account and make it act on issues like climate, environment, housing, and social and economic justice. We will be doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were not elected to get out of Labor\u2019s way and the sooner the Prime Minister understands that the better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Prime Minister needs to recognise that this was a strong result for Labor in terms of seats, not votes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnly around one third of Australians voted for his party, his national primary vote is lower than Mark Latham achieved in 2004, and in many seats Labor only won thanks to Greens preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf Labor wants to deliver real change, we\u2019re ready to work constructively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGiven the make-up of this Parliament, if positive change on climate, environment, and getting dental into Medicare does not happen, it will be because Labor lacks the ambition and courage to run a strong reform agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acting Greens Leader Senator McKim offered the following comments about the party\u2019s leadership process and the next term of Parliament: \u201cYesterday was a sad and emotional day for everyone in our Party Room, our Party and the broader movement we represent.\u201d \u201cOur vote held up, but we lost seats on a rise in Labor\u2019s vote … Continue reading “Greens Leadership”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32649,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions\/32649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}