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The federal election has ended another party leader’s career, after Adam Bandt yesterday conceded defeat in Melbourne.
Although the Greens will hold the balance of power in the Senate, the key question is how it can bounce back from a disastrous campaign that cost the party three of its four lower-house seats.
Flinders University’s Josh Holloway points to several reasons for the Greens’ near-wipeout – such as its deliberate obstruction of Labor’s housing agenda. “The party reaped neither the benefits of opposition nor those of compromise, but instead the costs of both,” he writes.
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Alison Carabine
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Josh Holloway, Flinders University
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Mark Melatos, University of Sydney
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Robyn Cox, University of Tasmania
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Health + Medicine
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Science + Technology
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Vera Korasidis, The University of Melbourne
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Environment + Energy
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Issy Borley, CSIRO; Cathy Trudinger, CSIRO; Ray Langenfelds, CSIRO
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Andrew James Couzens, CQUniversity Australia
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