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Ab · 9th September 2013, 00:37

The Australian Greens are more of a progressive liberal party with a particular interest in environmental issues. The NZ Greens are more of a hard-left socialist party. If you put their policy lists side by side they're actually quite different.

http://greens.org.au/policy

https://www.greens.org.nz/policy

Personally whenever election time comes around I compare the policies and personalities putting themselves forward for consideration, evaluate them based on my own beliefs, and vote accordingly (and remember Oz has a bicameral parliament so I'm voting for a local representative to the lower house and a state representative to the upper house).

In my local electorate five candidates put themselves forward for consideration as my MP. One candidate ruled himself out by representing religious bigots; one candidate ruled himself out by representing a vanity party for a crazy billionaire; two candidates ruled themselves out by representing parties that campaigned on a policy of "fuck the immigrants"; so by a process of elimination I was left with the Greens candidate. Thus my preferences paper was marked in that order.

Edit update - didn't mention that I live in a safe Liberal seat. So my lower-house vote was symbolic, the Liberal candidate was always going to win.

9th September 2013, 00:37	#61
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	The Australian Greens are more of a progressive liberal party with a particular interest in environmental issues. The NZ Greens are more of a hard-left socialist party. If you put their policy lists side by side they're actually quite different. http://greens.org.au/policy https://www.greens.org.nz/policy Personally whenever election time comes around I compare the policies and personalities putting themselves forward for consideration, evaluate them based on my own beliefs, and vote accordingly (and remember Oz has a bicameral parliament so I'm voting for a local representative to the lower house and a state representative to the upper house). In my local electorate five candidates put themselves forward for consideration as my MP. One candidate ruled himself out by representing religious bigots; one candidate ruled himself out by representing a vanity party for a crazy billionaire; two candidates ruled themselves out by representing parties that campaigned on a policy of "fuck the immigrants"; so by a process of elimination I was left with the Greens candidate. Thus my preferences paper was marked in that order. Edit update - didn't mention that I live in a safe Liberal seat. So my lower-house vote was symbolic, the Liberal candidate was always going to win.