Editing Australian Greens (section)

=== Christine Milne era 2012–2015 ===
[[Christine Milne]] led the Australian Greens through the remainder of the minority parliament,<ref name="Greens5">{{Cite web |date=2023-10-25 |title=Christine Milne |url=https://greens.org.au/tas/person/christine-milne |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=Tasmanian Greens}}</ref> after being [[Australian Greens leadership elections#2012|elected unopposed]].

==== 2013 Federal Election ====
At the [[2013 Australian federal election|2013 federal election]], the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] (lower house) primary vote was 8.7 percent (−3.1) with the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] (upper house) primary vote at 8.7 percent (−4.5). Despite receiving a decline in votes, the Greens representation in the parliament increased. [[Adam Bandt]] retained his [[Division of Melbourne|Melbourne]] seat with a primary vote of 42.6 percent (+7.0) and a [[Two-party-preferred vote|two-candidate preferred]] vote of 55.3 percent (−0.6). The Greens won four Senate positions, increasing their Senate representation from nine to ten senators.

==== 2014 Australian Senate Special Election in Western Australia ====
At the [[2014 Australian Senate special election in Western Australia]], the Greens won in excess of a quota with the primary vote increasing from 9.5 to 15.6 percent, re-electing [[Scott Ludlam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/04/07/ludlam-denies-leadership-ambitions|title=Ludlam denies leadership ambitions|website=News|date=7 April 2014 |access-date=11 June 2015}}</ref>

==== 2015 ====
In December 2015, the Greens struck a deal with the Coalition government, passing a law requiring multinational private companies with a turnover over $200 million to disclose their tax arrangements. This law also made it mandatory for multinational companies with a ''global'' turnover of $1 billion or more to have to prepare "general purpose" financial statements, which disclose greater tax details than previously occurred in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-03/coalition-and-greens-strike-deal-on-multi-national-tax-avoidance/6997328|title=Coalition and Greens strike deal on multinational tax avoidance|website=ABC News|date=3 December 2015|author=Susan McDonald & Chris Uhlmann}}</ref> The following year the Coalition government and the Greens agreed on a permanent 15% tax rate for [[Backpacking (travel)|backpackers]], in exchange for a $100 million funding boost to environmental stewardship [[Not-for-profit organization|not-for-profit]] [[Landcare Australia|Landcare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-01/backpacker-tax-passes-senate/8084334|title=Backpacker tax passes Senate with Greens support|website=ABC News|date=2 December 2016}}</ref>

Christine Milne stepped down from the leadership of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015.<ref name="Greens5" />