Just before 4.30pm last Wednesday, Antony Green called it for the ABC: Greens leader Adam Bandt had lost his seat.
Fifteen years after Bandt won the inner-urban seat of Melbourne from the ALP, Labor has taken it back – along with two of the Greens’ other three seats – leaving the party with just a single MP in the House of Representatives and without a leader.
The wipeout came as a shock to the Greens, who had high hopes of increasing their number of representatives in parliament.
But despite the shock result, this election sits alongside 2010 and 2022 as among the party’s largest ever share of votes.
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe, on where it all went wrong, and what now for the Greens.
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Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe
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