Problem is the Greens are unelectable in the lower house because they dilute their message across too many fringe issues that the majority of the public don't care enough about.

If they focussed on climate change, renewables, health and education (issues that affect the majority) they would have a better chance of picking up some lower house seats.

Otherwise we need a modern day Don Chipp to splinter a group off of either the LNP or ALP and form a new party that can hold key votes in both houses.

Perhaps, but voting Green next year will send a clear message that we are looking for change.

What sort of change? I agree with the parent that they spread themselves across too many fringe issues. I.e I may vote the greens to help save the environment, but that doesn't mean I care about kids with gender dysphoria.

The "Reason" party (used to be called the "Sex Party" (heh)) seem pretty sensible these days:

  https://reasonvic.org.au/policy/

Then vote Green and send letters to the other parties telling them why you did so.

That doesn't fully work, because I may care about environment but I may strongly disagree with everything else on their agenda. The main issue with the greens is that they don't stand for one thing anymore. They try and stand for everything.

Plus, I don't think most normal people have time to be sending letters to political parties.

> They try and stand for everything

Unlike other parties?

Voting is about which party you agree with most. If you care about climate change and Australia not bombing its economy enough, you should probably vote green.

I'm personally thinking it's time to join the party and try and influence change but that's a whole other level of commitment beyond writing letters.

Malcolm Fraser a few years before he passed away handed in his Liberal life membership in protest.

It made news for a day, pissed off a lot of people and that was it.

Interestingly, I just discovered he spent his final years putting together the platform for a new party.

The crikey page it was released on is behind a paywall but this might be it:

https://lalegale.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/renew-australia-fo...