Whither the Greens in the wake of the Dorinda Cox defection?

After a disappointing show in the Federal elections – the greens lost three of the lower home deputies, including the leading man Bandt – this month the small party lost the single federal indigenous representative and said that the WA Senator Dorinda Cox was more compatible with labor ”.

There was no shortage of questions about Cox’s motives. Senator, who was previously a member of a Labor Party Multiple bullying claims In the Greens – the Prime Minister’s attempts to sweep them under the carpet unresolved allegations. (COX blamed the greenery last week racism; like National Domestic Times reportsAt least three of the complaints against COX were made by First Nations women.

Last month, Cox ran for the assistant of the Greens and the whip – Curious, considering the claim that the greens did not represent the values ​​of the no longer (strangely, no journalist did not ask what these values there). Green Resources Cox’s A lot The criticism of the last labor on the first nations and fossil fuel problems made it difficult to believe that his decision was the principle. As Charlie Lewis said about the worker defector senator Fatima Payman, Anthony changed her melody about whether the flawed senators would leave the parliament suddenly leave the parliament. Comic.

The greens are the right to feel a victim of a person who works for a leading jump ship in the near future, but unquestionably saves the problem of rejecting them in front of the next elections, it is politically difficult. The Little Party still has a balance of power in the upcoming Senate, supporting the 10 enough senators for the government to pass through progressive legislation.

COX’s defect also opens a goat track in 29 senators to cross the legislation with the other 10 Crossbencher (if a nation, Pocock, Lambie, Tyrrell, Babet, Payman and Thorpe somehow align it with a single subject).

Aside from the numbers of the Senate, the greens have now lost two domestic senators in two terms, of course, under very different conditions (Lidia Thorpe left the party’s position in the sound referendum, a much more clear reason than Cox’s). It is a shame for the Greens who work to increase their indigenous representations, but now they cannot find the first nation spokesman for the first nation spokesman, although the leader Larissa Waters is the leader of the first nation spokesman. bay.

There are also questions about what direction the small party should take. While many voters still approve the party’s approach (the Greens ended primary, unchanged 12.2 %While winning the usual six senate points), even in the midst of the age of the left -leaning gene Z, a few years that cannot earn.

Is there anything for Cox The claim of separation, How suspicious, is this change, this change is not from Crossbench, but from the government? When the three green deputies are replaced by the Labor Party, is it what the old advances are increasingly thinking?

One of the main arguments for the media’s leadership of the media, “Beautiful” – less Bolşy and aggressive than the party have been painted quite or unjustly in recent years. Talking in the triple J To cut Yesterday, an optimistic waters made it clear that the ambitious greens were here to stay here, and that their votes remained stable despite everything thrown in the campaign.

Waters rejected repeated proposals that the greens are very “obstructive ,, saying that they were difficult negotiators when there was a good reason to be”.

Waters, the host David Marchese’ye, the party is trying to be constructive without the repulsive, “We are not just dicks for the sake of him; when we think that the point is really important, we dig our heels,” he said. “That’s why people vote for green; they just don’t want us to smile and be good, they actually want us to fight for them.”

Indeed, from many corners, the opposite of the election result – the small party is still sufficient to have the power of negotiation, despite the efforts to have the power of negotiation, 12.2% of the population approved by the greenery is remarkable between constructive and obstructive.

Unfortunately, for the Greens, Cox’s defect gives them fewer senators to do this.

But fortunately for the team waters, it is not very important, 10 senators will still dig their heels when the point really does.