Wrecker Greens care only for their own political careers

The Greens Party is eroding democracy more than you know.

The combination of their “block everything” approach and their dishonest slogans is undermining democracy.

Gone are the environmental campaigners of the 1990s that I remember from growing up in Fremantle.

Replacing them is a marketing machine that, like a pyramid scheme, only cares about its own survival.

And it is the people who vote for them who get hurt the most.

I have sat in Parliament gobsmacked at the Greens' destructive approach that has defined them this term.

They tried to destroy the Housing Australia Future Fund.

The Greens led the protection racket for the corruption in the CFMEU. Now the Greens say they will vote to oppose Environmental Protection Australia.

I am a progressive. Sadly the Greens are now just aggressive.

Aggressively anti-Labor with hatred for Labor members and candidates that is confrontational and obsessive.

Supporting vile protests across our country, including outside my office, which deny access to the basic democratic right of accessing your local member.

I have generally ignored the Greens. But the protest that tipped me over the edge was the Greens housing spokesperson choosing to stand up for John Setka.

Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus has called Mr Setka's comments about women “appalling and totally unacceptable”.

Worse than that, this Greens MP was excusing years of corruption, criminality, bullying, misogyny and thuggery. And not a single Green anywhere in the country had the guts to disagree with him.

I would have through that the Greens Party would have higher standards than that.

But they have lost sight of who they are. It is curious that the WA Greens have done nothing to oppose Peter Dutton's Collie nuclear power plant.

Nor did they have the grace to welcome the establishment of the Bunbury offshore wind zone.

Because when it comes to the Greens, it is all about themselves. Their egos. Their careers. Their falsehoods.

So, here are the questions that you and every West Australian should ask the Greens Party before the next election.

First, why do the Greens want to tear up the WA GST deal?

Yep, the Greens deputy leader this year said she opposed the WA GST deal and wanted a different GST system.

Second, why did the Greens leader only visit WA once in his official role as leader last financial year?

Third, why do the WA Greens oppose Labor's Help to Buy legislation? This Bill is modelled on WA's successful Keystart shared equity scheme that has helped 120,000 people into their own homes.

Fourth, why is the bulk of their rental policies unconstitutional? Surely, given the number of wealthy lawyers in the Greens, they know that their housing policies are unconstitutional. There is nothing more anti-democratic than offering false hope for a policy you can never implement.

Finally, how can the Greens attack others on the net zero transition when even the Greens have a policy to export gas all the way until 2049?

That's right. Greens senators seem to always, conveniently, forget their own support for gas exports for at least the next 25 years, including their support for gas exports from Gorgon, Ichthys and Pluto well into the 2040s.

You probably find that last one had to believe. You can read it for yourself in Adam Bandt's own policy paper published in 2022 that quotes, of all people, former UK Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson.

Strange times.

Ultimately politics is about turning values into results. It is about lifting people up through the unique power of government. That's what I focus on every day.

Sadly, the only people the Greens want to lift up are their candidates.

Now for 15 years, ever since the Greens chose to vote with Tony Abbott to stop the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, they have become about survival rather than outcomes.

If you want a blocker, then waste your vote with the Greens.

If you want a builder, the only choice is Labor.