Sandell says a similar idea had already been \u201ctossing around\u201d inside the party. On Monday, the Victorian Greens will unveil their own version: a new land tax bracket on investment property holdings worth more than $5m, with the proceeds helping fund a doubling of public housing and the scrapping of stamp duty for first home buyers.<\/p>\n
The proposal is the latest example of the Victorian Greens borrowing ideas from the new generation of progressive politicians gaining traction overseas. Last month, the Green party of England and Wales leader, Zack Polanski, addressed the party\u2019s campaign conference<\/a>, urging them to directly take One Nation on as he had with Reform.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n Sandell says by following their example, the Greens can present voters with a \u201cgenuinely progressive, hopeful and bold\u201d alternative to the major parties.<\/p>\n But with the populist right on the rise in the form of One Nation, some political observers remain sceptical the party will be able to lift its vote high enough to achieve its goals.<\/p>\n Changing mood<\/p>\n Victoria has long been considered a stronghold for the Greens, but the party\u2019s fortunes have turned in recent years.<\/p>\n In 2025, the state party lost Prahran to the Liberals at a February byelection, and three months later, federal leader Adam Bandt was ousted from Melbourne, the seat he had held since 2010, when he became the first Green to win a seat in the lower house at a general election.<\/p>\n But Sandell says \u201ca lot has changed\u201d in the past year, particularly in Victoria.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mood in Victoria is so different to six months ago or a year ago,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople are genuinely fed up with Labor, but they know the Liberals will be worse, and One Nation will be disastrous.\u201d<\/p>\n But not everyone is convinced voters dissatisfied with the major parties will turn to the Greens. Damon Alexander, a senior lecturer in politics and public policy at Swinburne University, says minor party support is likely to rise at the November election, but it won\u2019t necessarily benefit progressives.<\/p>\n \u201cThere might be a small cohort of Labor voters who shift to the Greens in those inner-city seats, but a lot of that group already jumped ship quite some time ago,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n Instead, he expects much of the protest vote to flow toward \u201cpopulist right-wing parties\u201d, particularly in outer suburban areas where he says \u201cthe Greens are really on the nose\u201d.<\/p>\n Even if the party\u2019s economic message resonates in these areas, Alexander says perceptions of the Greens as \u201ctoo progressive, too \u2018woke\u2019, too supportive of immigration\u201d may outweigh it.<\/p>\n
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