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Queensland Greens
ConvenorGemmia Burden[1]
Founded22 September 1991; 33 years ago (1991-09-22)
HeadquartersMilton, Queensland
Youth wingQueensland Young Greens
Women's wingQueensland Greens Women’s Network
LGBT wingQueensland Rainbow Greens
IdeologyGreen politics
Progressivism
Left-wing populism[2][3]
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationAustralian Greens
Colours  Green
Brisbane City Council
1 / 26
Legislative Assembly
2 / 93
House of Representatives
3 / 30
(Queensland seats)
Senate
2 / 12
(Queensland seats)
Local Government
1 / 509
Website
greens.org.au/qld

The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland, Australia, and a state member of the Australian Greens. The Greens were first founded in Queensland as the Brisbane Green Party in 1984, contesting four wards and for mayor in the 1985 Brisbane City Council elections. Following the collapse of the Brisbane Greens in 1986, the party began to re-form as the Queensland Greens under a national initiative, today's Australian Greens.[4] The Queensland Greens were officially founded as a political party on 22 September 1991 as part of the national Greens alliance.[5]

History

The party has been, and is currently, represented in all three levels of government, with Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate; Stephen Bates, Max Chandler-Mather, and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives; Michael Berkman and Amy MacMahon in the state Legislative Assembly; and Jonathan Sriranganathan in Brisbane City Council.

Federal parliament

The Queensland Greens' Senate vote at the 2007 federal election increased by 2.1 per cent to 7.5 per cent. It increased further to 12.77 per cent at the 2010 federal election with Queensland Greens' Senator Larissa Waters elected to serve a six-year term, becoming the party's first elected representative. She was re-elected to a three-year term in the 2016 election, but resigned in 2017 after discovering she held dual Canadian citizenship. The High Court ruled that her election was therefore invalid, and appointed Andrew Bartlett, convenor of the Queensland Greens and former leader of the Australian Democrats, as her successor in the Senate.[6]

In the 2019 federal election, Larissa Waters was re-elected for a 6 year senate term. [7] In 2022, state convenor, Penny Allman-Payne, was elected first on the Senate ticket.

Candidates from the Queensland Greens have were not elected to the lower house of federal parliament until the 2022 Federal Election. Counting remains ongoing, with the Greens picking up Griffith, Ryan, and Brisbane.

Queensland parliament

The Queensland Greens has garnished growing support in state elections, increasing their vote from 2.5 per cent at the 2001 election to 9 per cent in the 2020 election.[8]

The party achieved its first state parliamentary representative in October 2008 when Indooroopilly member Ronan Lee defected to the Greens from the Labor Party. Lee ascribed his move to the Greens due to his dissatisfaction of the Bligh government's environmental policies.[9] Responding to Lee's change of party, Labor's Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Andrew McNamara rejected his claims, calling the Bligh government "the greenest government that this state has ever had".[10] Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown praised Lee's decision saying, "Ronan Lee's move will give the Queensland Parliament a strong and intelligent Greens advocate to lead debate on the best social and economic way forward in an age of environmental and economic crisis...Now there will be a responsible voice free to challenge those old Labor and National-Liberal policies which, for example threaten the death of the Great Barrier Reef and tens of thousands of jobs dependent on it within a generation".[11]

In the 2017 state election, the Greens won their first ever seat in the state parliament. Following the abolition of the seats of Mt Coot-tha and Indooroopilly, environmental lawyer Michael Berkman won the newly formed seat of Maiwar. Berkman narrowly won the seat against the LNP's Scott Emerson, a former cabinet member in the Newman government.[12]

During the 2020 state election, the Greens gained an additional seat in parliament, bringing their total to two. While Berkman maintained the seat of Maiwar, Amy MacMahon won the seat of South Brisbane from Labor's former deputy premier Jackie Trad. The Greens also had significant success in Cooper, getting 30% of first preference votes, but losing to Labor's Jonty Bush after preferences were delivered.[13]

Local governments

Greens candidate Jonathan Sriranganathan (then known as Sri) was elected to represent The Gabba Ward in Brisbane City Council at the March 2016 local government elections. He achieved a primary vote of 31.72%, a positive swing of approximately 13.8%. Sriranganathan finished in second place behind LNP candidate Sean Jacobs, but was able to win on mostly Labor preferences.[14] Sriranganathan is the first Greens candidate to win a seat in local government anywhere in Queensland.[15]

At the 2020 Brisbane City council elections, the Greens were the only party to have a swing in their favour, at 3.3%. Jonathan Sriranganathan retained his ward with a 12.4% swing in primary vote and an overall two-party preferred vote of 65.5%. The Greens additionally entered the two-party preferred vote in 4 other wards where the party came close to unseating the Liberal candidates, including Central (45.2%), Paddington (49.6%), Pullenvale (40.6%) and Walter Taylor (47.7%). 21 out of the 26 wards registered swings towards the Greens.[16]

Queensland Young Greens

The Queensland Young Greens are the youth wing of the Queensland Greens and is open to all members under the age of 31 across the state of Queensland.[17] The Young Greens' main focus is on election campaigning, skills training, policy development, and hosting a number of different social events.[18] The youth wing maintains a grassroots approach in organising members.[19] The youth wing also shares the same policies as the Queensland Greens based around the four guiding principles of non-violence, social justice, grass-roots democracy and ecological sustainability.[20][21]

Electoral history

Queensland

Election Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Votes % +/– Seats +/–
1995 51,748 2.87% -
0 / 89
 Steady
1998 45,709 2.36% Decrease 0.51%
0 / 89
 Steady
2001 51,630 2.51% Increase 0.15%
0 / 89
 Steady
2004 145,522 6.76% Increase 4.25%
0 / 89
 Steady
2006 175,798 7.99% Increase 1.23%
0 / 89
 Steady
2009 198,475 8.37% Increase 0.38%
0 / 89
 Steady
2012 184,147 7.53% Decrease 0.84%
0 / 89
 Steady
2015 221,157 8.43% Increase 0.90%
0 / 89
 Steady
2017 270,263 10.00% Increase 1.57%
1 / 93
 Increase 1
2020 271,514 9.47% Decrease 0.53%
2 / 93
 Increase 1

Federal

Election Queensland House seats Queensland Senate seats
Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats won Total seats +/–
1993 - -
0 / 25
 59,303 3.2
0 / 6
0 / 12
1996 - -
0 / 26
 Steady 46,285 2.4
0 / 6
0 / 12
 Steady
1998 47,440 2.4
0 / 28
 Steady 42,264 2.1
0 / 6
0 / 12
 Steady
2001 73,465 3.49
0 / 28
 Steady 71,102 3.31
0 / 6
0 / 12
 Steady
2004 111,314 5.06
0 / 28
 Steady 122,393 5.40
0 / 6
0 / 12
 Steady
2007 133,938 5.63
0 / 29
 Steady 177,063 7.32
0 / 6
0 / 12
 Steady
2010 260,471 10.92
0 / 30
 Steady 312,804 12.76
1 / 6
1 / 12
 Increase 1
2013 156,880 6.22
0 / 30
 Steady 158,150 6.04
0 / 6
1 / 12
 Steady
2016 235,887 8.83
0 / 30
 Steady 188,323 6.92
1 / 12
1 / 12
 Steady
2019 292,061 10.32
0 / 30
 Steady 288,320 9.94
1 / 6
1 / 12
 Steady
2022 382,900 12.94
3 / 30
 Increase 3 373,460 12.39
1 / 6
2 / 12
 Increase 1

Parliamentarians

Federal Parliament

House of Representatives

Current

Senate

Current
Former

State Parliament

Current

Former

Councillors

Brisbane City Council

Current

References

  1. ^ "QLD Office Bearers and Party Contacts". Queensland Greens. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. ^ Raue, Tom. "Is there a future for the left in the Greens?". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ McLoughlin, Liam. "Progressive Populism Has Transformed Australia Before — It Could Do It Again". Jacobin Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^ Eddy, Elizabeth. "The green movement in Southeast Queensland: The environment, institutional failure, and social conflict, p.235". espace.library.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Queensland Greens — About Us". Greens.org.au. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  6. ^ Belot, Henry (18 July 2017). "Larissa Waters, deputy Greens leader, quits in latest citizenship bungle". abc.net.au. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Senators elected".
  8. ^ "Total Formal First Preference Vote by Party". Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
  9. ^ Marszalek, Jessica (7 October 2008). "Greens MP says he's forcing govt change". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Green Lee's defection 'self-serving'". ABC News. 6 October 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Ronan Lee is Queensland's first Greens MP". greensmps.org.au. 5 October 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Greens claim first ever seat win at a Queensland election citing nationwide swing". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  13. ^ McKenna, Kate; Dasey, Jason (2 November 2020). "Queensland election results reveal the winners and losers in 2020". ABC News. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  14. ^ "The Gabba - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". abc.net.au. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Greens win first Queensland local government seat". abc.net.au. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  16. ^ "Brisbane City Council 2020 Results - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  17. ^ "Queensland Greens". Qld.greens.org.au. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  18. ^ "Young Greens Australia". Greens.org.au. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  19. ^ "Just Rights QLD". Justrightqld.org. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  20. ^ "Queensland Greens Policies". Retrieved 23 April 2011.
  21. ^ "Australian Politics". Australianpolitics.com. Retrieved 23 April 2011.


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