Opposition Leader Bill Shorten expects the Greens will cop a backlash if they preference the Liberal Party in some key Labor seats.

A Parliamentary Library analysis of 2015 NSW state election results and proposed redrawing of seat boundaries shows deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek's electorate of Sydney is at risk of falling to the Greens on the back of Liberal preferences.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale says he's open to finding "common ground" with the coalition and is confident his party can win the inner city seat.

"We've worked with the coalition in the past ... and we will work with whoever the government of the day is," he told reporters in Sydney on Friday.

But he acknowledged the parties do have their differences.

"On most things, the Greens and the coalition are poles apart," he said.

"And I think that's the message here - certainly in those Labor-held seats - it's that voters across the country are saying Labor is no longer a party of opposition to a coalition government."

Mr Shorten said his "money" was on Ms Plibersek and Anthony Albanese, who is also under threat in neighbouring Grayndler, according to the analysis.

"They work hard locally. They're outstanding contributors to my leadership team," he said.

"Furthermore, if the Greens preference the Liberals, that speaks volumes and I think the Greens will suffer a backlash if they ... pick the policies of Tony Abbott on climate change over Labor."

Ms Plibersek holds her seat with a 14.7 per cent margin, but says she's never taken it for granted since first winning it in 1998.

"I have fought every election as though my seat was a marginal seat," she said.

"There can be very big shifts in a seat like mine because there are lots of new residents every time I face the ballot box."

The Labor frontbencher said the fact that the Greens had done deals with the coalition such as cutting part-pensions would not play well for the minor party.

"We know that the Greens have supported the government in a number of areas that I would think would be quite controversial with their voters."


http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2015/11/6/national-affairs/shorten-warn...

The Liberal would love that - it would mean the demise of the greens. Even green supporters would not vote for the greens if they were to go that far.

A big part of the green vote are basically Labor people who don't like their local Labor rep and or the current ALP leadership. Doing this could see the greens win no seats at all.

Liberals have 91 seats without the Greens

Shuttin is afraid very afraid given he's sitting at 17%

Dnarever wrote on Nov 7^th, 2015 at 4:29pm:




hahahaha... I think people are waking up to the corruption that is all LABOR these days...they dont need excuses to flee that party it  lost its way years ago...

the greens are and always have been OPPORTUNISTS..

wait for them to find a PANIC BUTTON to push about 6 months before the election....

its what they do and what they use to their advantage...

havent you noticed how greenwin has turned even more aggression  towards Labor than he does to Turnbull...???? surely you have noticed the build up... ..


see how he uses the word PANIC....it will get worse now... I mean who takes any n otice of "WALLY"

cods wrote on Nov 7^th, 2015 at 5:48pm:



Most voters don't care about who's PM. If they did, they would of never voted Abbott in.

The next election still may come down to policies rather than personality / lack of.

Karnel wrote on Nov 7^th, 2015 at 5:57pm:



You obviously haven't heard of a place called Melbourne.

Seems the Greens are panicking, judging by the number of meaningless threads Greens_win has put up boosting the Greens.

DiNatale put his foot right in it with his comments re Green preferences and that is all there is to it. He is also moving the Greens even further right very quickly and that is not going down at all well either. For example: Greens impatient to have law passed to change Senate voting so microparties cannot get elected. This will favor THE COALITION!

Greens are Lib–lite. NOT left at all.

Sure, the Greens maintain a line of rhetoric and empty gestures about being frightfully left and oh so progressive.

But their actions don’t bear that out. Cynical, neoconservative and moving ever rightwards. This is creating unrest among the deluded Greens supporters, some have already jumped ship.