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=== Adam Bandt era 2020β2025 === On 4 February, Adam Bandt was [[Australian Greens leadership elections#2020|elected unopposed]] as parliamentary leader of the Australia Greens party room.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalzell |first=Stephanie |date=2020-02-04 |title=Adam Bandt elected unopposed as federal Greens leader; Larissa Waters and Nick McKim as deputies |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-04/adam-bandt-elected-federal-greens-leader/11924970 |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=ABC News}}</ref> ==== 2022 election ==== [[File:Greens parliamentarians.jpeg|right|thumb|All Greens members in federal parliament following the 2022 election.]] The Greens' strategy for the [[2022 Australian federal election|2022 federal election]] involved targeting nine key seats, including the previously Labor-held seats of [[Division of Macnamara|Macnamara]], [[Division of Griffith|Griffith]], [[Division of Richmond|Richmond]], [[Division of Wills|Wills]], and [[Division of Canberra|Canberra]], and four previously Liberal-held seats of [[Division of Kooyong|Kooyong]], [[Division of Brisbane|Brisbane]], [[Division of Ryan|Ryan]] and [[Division of Higgins|Higgins]].<ref name="Crowe-2021">{{Cite web|last=Crowe|first=David|date=2021-03-21|title=Greens to ask Australians to embrace hung Parliament|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-election-strategy-bets-on-australians-embracing-hung-parliament-20210321-p57clv.html|access-date=2021-04-24|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> Bandt claimed that polling suggested a hung parliament was a likely outcome and the Greens would work with Labor to "kick the Liberals out and make the next government go further and faster on climate action, and make billionaires and mining corporations pay their fair share."<ref name="Crowe-2021" /> [[Antony Green]] suggested that a redistribution in Victoria by the [[Australian Electoral Commission]] would likely increase the Greens' odds of winning the seat of Macnamara.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2021 Federal Redistribution β Draft Boundaries for Victoria β Antony Green's Election Blog|date=19 March 2021 |url=https://antonygreen.com.au/2021-federal-redistribution-victorian-draft-boundaries/|access-date=2021-04-24|language=en-AU}}</ref> The party had its best ever result at the election, picking up three seats in inner [[Brisbane]], [[Elizabeth Watson-Brown]] in the seat of [[Division of Ryan|Ryan]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-05-21 |title='Planet Greensland': Greens win in Ryan shakes up Queensland's electoral map |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-21/qld-federal-election-greens-brisbane-ryan-griffith/101088054 |access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref> [[Stephen Bates]] in the seat of Brisbane,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-05-28 |title='It's very surreal': Greens win third seat in Brisbane |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-28/greens-win-brisbane-seat-electorate-federal-election/101104170 |access-date=2022-08-03}}</ref> and [[Max Chandler-Mather]] in the seat of [[Division of Griffith|Griffith]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-23 |title=Grassroots Greens win the battle of Brisbane |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/greens-go-old-school-to-win-the-battle-for-brisbane-20220523-p5anpb |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=Australian Financial Review |language=en}}</ref> to boost their representation in the House to four MPs, and won a Senate seat in every state to increase to 12 senators with new Senators [[Barbara Pocock]], [[David Shoebridge]] and [[Penny Allman-Payne]]. This gave them the balance of power. Analysis of vote trends suggested the party succeeded in picking up former votes of both Labor and the Liberal Party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-02/greens-conservative-voters-federal-election-parliament/101200284|title=Greens federal election success saw votes from Liberal, as well as Labor, voters|work=ABC News|date=1 July 2022|author=Elias Clure}}</ref> The party were unsuccessful in picking up the seat of [[Division of Richmond|Richmond]] with their high-profile candidate [[Mandy Nolan]]. On 6 February 2023, Victorian Greens senator [[Lidia Thorpe]] announced that she would resign from the Greens to become an independent senator, over disagreements concerning the proposed [[Indigenous Voice to Parliament]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kolovos |first1=Benita |last2=Karp |first2=Paul |date=2023-02-06 |title=Senator Lidia Thorpe quits Greens party to pursue black sovereignty |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/06/senator-lidia-thorpe-to-quit-australian-greens-party-independent-black-sovereignty-indigenous-voice-to-parliament |access-date=2023-02-06 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-05 |title=Indigenous Voice to parliament updates LIVE: Lidia Thorpe quits Greens over Voice division |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/australia-should-prepare-for-chinese-spy-balloons-20230206-p5ci3n |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=Australian Financial Review |language=en}}</ref> In mid-March 2024, the Greens announced they would introduce legislation seeking to break the dominance of the two supermarket giants [[Woolworths Group (Australia)|Woolworths Group]] and [[Coles Group]] by forcing them to sell some of their operations. While the [[Albanese government]] did not support the bill, it found support from the centre-right [[National Party of Australia|National Party]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Jake |title=Greens push for powers to break up Coles and Woolworths 'duopoly' |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-19/greens-bill-divestiture-coles-woolworths-supermarket-power/103601314 |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=19 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321223121/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-19/greens-bill-divestiture-coles-woolworths-supermarket-power/103601314 |archive-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> ==== 2025 election ==== The Greens lost party leader [[Adam Bandt]] in the seat of [[Division of Melbourne|Melbourne]], [[Stephen Bates]] in the seat of [[Division of Brisbane|Brisbane]], and [[Max Chandler-Mather]] in the seat of [[Division of Griffith|Griffith]] in the [[2025 Australian federal election|2025 federal election]], with Labor taking all three seats in a landslide victory.
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