How to restore the Greens

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It’s not rocket surgery. Be green, not fake.

  • Drop the woke malarky.
  • Drop the support for endless population growth and be honest about its devastating effects on the natural world, as well as youth prospects for housing and social progression.
  • Be honest about the limits to growth, not pompously hypocritical to those of differing views.
  • Put the environment at the centre of all policy debate. Forget genitals, Gaza and all other distractions.
  • Be realistic about how large the party can be and force change from the balance of power (that is, be the party of “keeps the bastards green”.

If you’ll pardon the pun, restore the party to its roots.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.