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One party, 11 egos: inside the Greens’ meltdown
14 minutes Posted Oct 5, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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New leader, same old drama for the Greens, whose outsize capacity for melodrama marks a crisis of confidence for the party that’s become more about Gaza than the grassroots. Today, Richard Ferguson on where the Greens are actually going. 

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David Shoebridge vows Greens will ‘replace’ Labor as defeated Faruqi rebels

‘I wish we’d listened to Faruqi before Bondi’, Greens leader David Shoebridge says

Commentary by Richard Ferguson: Greens desperately look for their Zohran Mamdani. They have Mehreen Faruqi instead

Commentary by The Mocker: We get it, Mehreen. It’s not easy being Green

This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music. 

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