Editing Australian Greens (section)

== Structure ==
===Parliament===
====Federal leaders====
{{Main|Leaders of the Australian Greens}}
{{Further|Australian Greens leadership elections}}

On Saturday 12 November 2005 at the national conference in [[Hobart]], the Australian Greens abandoned their long-standing tradition of having no official leader and approved a process whereby a parliamentary leader could be elected by the Greens Parliamentary [[Parliamentary group|Party Room]]. On Monday 28 November 2005, Bob Brown – who had long been regarded as ''de facto'' leader by many inside the party, and most people outside the party – was elected unopposed as the Parliamentary Party Leader.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-11-29/greens-firm-up-party-structure/751114|title=Greens firm up party structure|website=ABC News|date=29 November 2005}}</ref> Each leader has been described to represent a faction within the party, with the political journalist Paddy Manning describing that Christine Milne came from the right wing of the party, while Bandt is the first Greens leader from the left wing of the party.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adam Bandt, the personable hardliner |url=https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/may/1588255200/margaret-simons/adam-bandt-personable-hardliner |website=The Monthly |access-date=17 May 2020 |date=1 May 2020}}</ref>

The leadership is decided by consensus within the [[Parliamentary group|party room]] (or a party room vote if consensus cannot be reached), and all previous Greens leaders have been [[Australian Greens leadership elections|elected unopposed]] (as of 2025).<ref>{{cite web |title=Plebiscite: Method of electing the Australian Greens Leader |url=https://greens.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020Leadership-Plebiscite-Questions-and-Arguments.pdf |url-status=live |publisher=Australian Greens |access-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250512170210/https://greens.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/2020Leadership-Plebiscite-Questions-and-Arguments.pdf |archive-date=12 May 2025 |date=April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Knott |first=Matthew |title='It's uncomfortable': Greens in uncharted territory as leadership contenders jostle |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-uncomfortable-greens-in-uncharted-territory-as-leadership-contenders-jostle-20250509-p5lxup.html |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=12 May 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250509072739/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-uncomfortable-greens-in-uncharted-territory-as-leadership-contenders-jostle-20250509-p5lxup.html |url-status=live |archive-date=9 May 2025 |date=9 May 2025}}</ref>

In May 2020, 62% of rank-and-file Greens party members voted for democratically [[Leadership election]] to pick the leader, However it failed to meet the two-thirds majority of 66.67% which is required to force a change.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/greens-vote-to-give-members-voice-in-leadership-election-falls-short-20200513-p54snf.html|title=Greens vote to give members voice in leadership election falls short|date=13 May 2020|publisher=}}</ref>

====Parliamentary portfolios====
{{Main|Australian Greens Front Bench}}
Greens MPs are each assigned their own portfolios, or specific areas of responsibility. All portfolios are decided by the party and may differ in title from the government's portfolio priorities The Greens have formed a Gun Control portfolio, of which there is no equivalent in the government.<ref name="Greens4">{{Cite web|url=https://greensmps.org.au/portfolios|title=Portfolios {{!}} GreensMPs|website=greensmps.org.au|access-date=13 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.directory.gov.au/portfolios|title=Portfolios|publisher=Government Online Directory|date=13 September 2019|website=www.directory.gov.au|language=en|access-date=13 September 2019}}</ref>

Portfolios are divided into five major categories according to the Greens: "an equal society", "world-class essential services", "climate and the environment", "the green economy", and "a confident Australia".<ref name="Greens4" />

==={{anchor|agfnn}}National Council===
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The Australian Greens is [[federalism|federally]] organised with separately registered state parties signing up to a national constitution, yet retaining considerable policy-making and organisational autonomy from the centre.<ref>Turnbull, N; Vromen, A. "[http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2004/09/turnbull_vromen.html Election 2004: Where do the Greens fit in Election 2004?]", ''Australian Review of Public Affairs'', 17 September 2004.</ref> The national decision-making body of the Australian Greens is the National Council, consisting of delegates from each member body (a state or territory Greens party), two members of the federal party room, a representative of the Australian Greens First Nations Network (AGFNN, or Blak Greens<ref>{{cite web | last=Puglisi | first=Leonardo | title=Greens First Nations Network calls on party members to vote No or abstain in Voice referendum | website=[[6 News Australia]] | date=28 September 2023 | url=https://www.6newsau.com/post/greens-first-nations-network-calls-on-members-to-vote-no-or-abstain-in-voice-referendum | access-date=8 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Home | website=Australian Greens First Nations Network  | url=https://firstnations.greens.org.au/ | access-date=8 October 2023}}</ref>), and the national office bearers including the National Convenor, Secretary and Treasurer. As at May 2020, all seven of the party's office bearer positions are held by women.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-29|title=Doing politics differently|url=https://greens.org.au/magazine/doing-politics-differently|access-date=2020-09-25|website=Australian Greens|language=en}}</ref> There is also a Public Officer, a Party Agent and a Registered Officer. The National Council arrives at decisions by consensus. All policies originating from this structure are subject to ratification by the members of the Australian Greens at National Conference.<ref>"[http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/sandgategreens/Organisational%20Framework%20of%20the%20Australian%20Greens.htm Organisational Framework of the Australian Greens] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818232243/http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/sandgategreens/Organisational%20Framework%20of%20the%20Australian%20Greens.htm |date=18 August 2004 }}", ''Sandgate Branch of the Queensland Greens''.</ref>

===State and territory parties===
{{Main|List of member parties of the Australian Greens}}
The Australian Greens are a federation consisting of eight parties from each state and territory. The various [[States and territories of Australia|Australian states and territories]] have different [[Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories|electoral systems]], all of which allow the Greens to gain representation. As of 2024, the Greens hold at least one seat in all eight [[Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories|state and territory legislatures]].

Five Greens have become ministers at the state/territory level: Nick McKim and [[Cassy O'Connor]] in Tasmania, 2010–2014; and in the [[Australian Capital Territory|ACT]], [[Shane Rattenbury]] since [[2012 Australian Capital Territory election|2012]] and [[Emma Davidson]] and [[Rebecca Vassarotti]] since [[2020 Australian Capital Territory election|2020]].

Most of the state-based Green parties which have joined the Australian Greens do not have a formal leader, and instead they have a shared leadership structure.<ref name="Cunningham-2014">{{cite journal |last1=Cunningham |first1=Christine |last2=Jackson |first2=Stewart |title=Leadership and the Australian Greens |journal=Leadership |date=13 March 2014 |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=496–511 |doi=10.1177/1742715013498407|s2cid=144393361 |url=https://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=ecuworkspost2013 }}</ref> However, Tasmania, Victoria, and the ACT have adopted singular leadership structures into their party.<ref name="Cunningham-2014" />

The current Australian Green member parties are the following:
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" rowspan="3" |Party
! rowspan="3" |Leader
! colspan="6" | Last [[Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories|state/territory election]]
! rowspan="3" | Status
! rowspan="11" style="width:1px" |
! colspan="2" | [[Parliament of Australia|Federal representatives]]
|-
! colspan="3" | Lower House
! rowspan="10" style="width:1px" |
! colspan="2" | Upper House
! rowspan="2" |[[Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2022–2025|MPs]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Members of the Australian Senate, 2022–2025|Senators]]
|-
!Year
!Votes (%)
!Seats
!Votes (%)
!Seats
|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Greens New South Wales}};" |
|[[The Greens NSW|Greens New South Wales]]
|''None''
| align="center" |[[2023 New South Wales state election|2023]]
| align="right" |9.7
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| align="right" |9.1
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| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Australian Greens Victoria}};" |
|[[Victorian Greens]]
|[[Ellen Sandell]]
| align="center" |[[2022 Victorian state election|2022]]
| align="right" |11.5
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| align="right" |10.3
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| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Queensland Greens}};" |
|[[Queensland Greens]]
|''None''
| align="center" |[[2024 Queensland state election|2024]]
| align="right" |9.9
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Greens Western Australia}};" |
|[[Greens Western Australia]]
|''None''
| align="center" |[[2025 Western Australian state election|2025]]
| align="right" |11.1
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| align="right" |10.9
|{{Composition bar|4|37|hex={{party color|Greens Western Australia}}}}
| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Greens South Australia}};" |
|[[Greens South Australia]]
|''None''
| align="center" |[[2022 South Australian state election|2022]]
| align="right" |9.1
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| align="right" |9.0
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| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Tasmanian Greens}};" |
|[[Tasmanian Greens]]
|[[Rosalie Woodruff]]
| align="center" |[[2024 Tasmanian state election|2024]]
| align="right" |13.9
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| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|ACT Greens}};" |
|[[ACT Greens]]
|[[Shane Rattenbury]]
| align="center" |[[2024 Australian Capital Territory election|2024]]
| align="right" |12.2
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|align=center colspan=2 {{N/A}}{{efn|The ACT has a [[Unicameralism|unicameral]] parliament.}}
| bgcolor="#FFE3E3" align="center" |[[Crossbench]]
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|-
| style="width:2px;background:{{party color|Northern Territory Greens}};" |
|[[Northern Territory Greens]]
|''None''
| align="center" |[[2024 Northern Territory general election|2024]]
| align="right" |8.1
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====Working groups====
[[File:Australian Young Greens Logo.jpg|thumb|right|[[Australian Young Greens]] logo.]]
A variety of working groups have been established by the National Council, which are directly accessible to all Greens members. Working groups perform an advisory function by developing policy, reviewing or developing the party structure, or by performing other tasks assigned by the National Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Charter and Constitution of the Australian Greens |url=https://greens.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-07/AG_Constitution_May_2020.pdf |website=Australian Greens |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922153233/https://greens.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-07/AG_Constitution_May_2020.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Australian Young Greens]] are a federation of Young Greens groups from each Australian state and territory. Together they form the youth wing of the Australian Greens

A national Sexuality and Gender Identity Working Group exists at a federal level,<ref>{{cite news |title=Global LGBT+ Network to launch |url=https://greens.org.au/magazine/global-lgbt-network-launch |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Green Magazine}}</ref> and there are LGBTIQ working groups in some state and territory parties, including: Queer Greens Victoria, [[Queensland Greens#Other working groups|Queensland Rainbow Greens]], [[Greens South Australia#Member action groups|SA Greens Queer Members Action Group]], [[The Greens NSW#Working groups|NSW Greens Sex, Sexuality and Gender Identity Working Group]].