Thread by @Monocotyledon

I am seeing murmurings on social media about a possible Greens/ALP coalition.

If the #ALP and the #Greens could overcome their mutual antipathy (and it is indeed on both sides), they could become unassailable.

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#Auspol 1/5

Australia is so used to having a big centre-left/progressive party that can govern in its own right, but that is clearly becoming increasingly unlikely as party membership declines and as the ALP's base shifts and fragments.

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The left needs to stop assuming that the ALP is sufficient on its own to get the numbers to govern and gnashing its teeth when it fails to get over the line.

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We have in Australia a foolish attitude that minority government is somehow undesirable. But look at Europe, where progressive governments formed through long or short term alliances are not just commonplace but efficient, productive and result in good governance.

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One thing successful coalition governments demand is negotiation and compromise, rather than endless combativeness and adversarialism. Surely, in these dire times, that is exactly what we need.

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To those who are responding, "It can't happen" but think it *should* happen, perhaps think about what is stopping it and how we might overcome those hurdles?

There is so much at stake here. Imagine another term of the Morrison government and how much damage would result.