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Australian Greens | |
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| Abbreviation | |
| Leader | Larissa Waters[3] |
| Deputy Leader | Mehreen Faruqi |
| Manager of Greens Business | Sarah Hanson-Young |
| Party Whip | Nick McKim |
| Founded | 1992; 33 years ago (1992) |
| Headquarters | Braddon,Australian Capital Territory[4] |
| Newspaper | Green Magazine[5] |
| Think tank | The Green Institute |
| Youth wing | Young Greens |
| Membership(2020) |  15,000[6] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing[11] |
| Regional affiliation | Asia-Pacific Greens |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| Colours | Green |
| Slogan | A Future for All of Us |
| Governing body | National Council[12] |
| Constituent parties | |
| House of Representatives | 1 / 150 |
| Senate | 10 / 76 |
| State and territory governments | 0 / 8 |
| State and territory lower houses[a] | 17 / 465 |
| State upper houses[a] | 14 / 156 |
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TheAustralian Greens, commonly referred to simply asthe Greens, are aleft-winggreen Australianpolitical party. As of 2025, the Greens are the third-largest political party in Australia by vote and the fourth-largest by elected representation.[citation needed] Following the2025 Australian federal election,Larissa Waters serves as Leader of the Greens[13] andMehreen Faruqi serves as deputy leader.
The party was formed in 1992 as a confederation of eight state and territorial parties.[14] In their early years, the party was largely built around the personality of well-known Tasmanian politicianBob Brown, before expanding its representation substantially in the early part of the 21st century. The party cites four core values as its ideology, namelyecological sustainability,social justice,grassroots democracy, andpeace and non-violence.[15] The party's origins can be traced to the earlyenvironmental movement in Australia, theFranklin Dam controversy, theGreen bans, and thenuclear disarmament movement. The party began with theUnited Tasmania Group, one of the firstgreen parties in the world.[16]
At the 2025 federal election, the Greens lost 3 of their previous 4 representatives in the House of Representatives and retained all 11 of their senate seats. In 2020, the party had ~15,000 members.[6]
The origins of the Australian Greens can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of theUnited Tasmania Group, one of the firstgreen parties in the world,[16] but also thenuclear disarmament movement in Western Australia and sections of the industrial left in New South Wales who were inspired by theBuilders Labourers FederationGreen bans in Sydney.[17] Co-ordination between environmentalist groups occurred in the 1980s with various significant protests. Key people involved in these campaigns includedBob Brown andChristine Milne, who went on to contest and win seats in theParliament of Tasmania and eventually form theTasmanian Greens. Both Brown and Milne subsequently became leaders of the federal party.[18][19]
The formation of the federal party in 1992 brought together over a dozen green groups, from state and local organisations, some of which had existed for 20 years.[15] Following the formation of the national party in 1992, regional emphasis variations remained within the Greens, with members of the "industrial left" remaining a presence in the New South Wales branch.[15] Brown resigned from the Tasmanian Parliament in 1993, and in 1996 he was elected as a senator for Tasmania, the first elected as an Australian Greens candidate.[20]
Initially, the most successful Greens group during this period wasThe Greens (WA), which was still a separate organisation from the Australian Greens at the time. Vallentine was succeeded byChristabel Chamarette in 1992, and she was joined byDee Margetts in 1993. However, Chamarette was defeated in the1996 federal election. Margetts lost her seat in the1998 federal election, leaving Brown as the sole Australian Greens senator.
In the2001 federal election, Brown was re-elected as a senator for Tasmania, and a second Greens senator,Kerry Nettle, was elected in New South Wales. The Greens opposed theHoward government'sPacific Solution of offshore processing for asylum seekers, and opposed the bipartisan offers of support toANZUS and theAfghanistan War by the government andBeazley Opposition in the aftermath of theSeptember 11 attacks. The party described the Afghanistan commitment in particular as "warmongering".[21] Brown and Nettle's performance in the Senate increased voter support for the party, as it showcased that the Greens were notdeep ecologists nor a single-issue environmentalist organisation, thus granting approval from disaffected Labor voters.[22]
On 19 October 2002, the Greens won aHouse of Representatives seat for the first time whenMichael Organ won theCunninghamby-election, triggered by the resignation ofLabor memberStephen Martin.
In the2004 federal election, the Australian Greens fielded candidates in every House of Representatives seat in Australia. The Greens' primary vote rose by 2.3% to 7.2%. This won them two additional Senate seats, taken byChristine Milne in Tasmania andRachel Siewert in Western Australia, bringing the total to four. InNew South Wales, the Greens ranJohn Kaye as their leadSenate candidate but were unsuccessful due to unfavourable preference flows,[23] and Organ lost his seat to Labor'sSharon Bird.
The Greens increased their national vote by 1.38 points to 9.04% at the2007 federal election, with the election of South Australian senatorSarah Hanson-Young taking the number of Greens senators to five. Senators Bob Brown (Tas) andKerry Nettle (NSW) were up for re-election, Brown was re-elected, but Nettle was unsuccessful, becoming the only Australian Greens senator to lose their seat despite increasing her vote from 2001.[24][25][26]
In November 2008, SenatorChristine Milne was elected deputy leader in a ballot contested against SenatorRachel Siewert.
In 2009, the Greens and the Liberal Party voted to defeat Labor's emission trading scheme legislation after failed negotiations for an emissions cut target.[27]
The2010 federal election marked a high point for the Greens electorally, with the party receiving its largest vote to date and sharing thebalance of power. The Greens received a four percent swing to finish with 13 percent of the vote in the Senate. The Greens won a seat in each of the six states at the election, bringing the party to a total of nine senators from July 2011, holding thebalance of power in the Senate. The new senators wereLee Rhiannon in New South Wales,Richard Di Natale inVictoria,Larissa Waters inQueensland,Rachel Siewert inWestern Australia,Penny Wright inSouth Australia andChristine Milne inTasmania.[28] IncumbentsScott Ludlam in Western Australia,Sarah Hanson-Young in South Australia andBob Brown in Tasmania were not due for re-election. The Greens also won their firstHouse of Representatives seat at a general election, the seat ofMelbourne with candidate Adam Bandt, who was acrossbencher in the firsthung parliament since the1940 federal election.[29] Almost two weeks after the election, the Greens agreed to support aGillardLaborminority government onconfidence and supply votes. Labor was returned to government with the additional support of threeindependent crossbenchers.[30][31][32]
Prior to the 2010 Federal Election, theElectrical Trades Union's Victorian branch donated $325,000 to the Greens' Victorian campaign – the largest political donation ever directed to the Party up to that time.[33]
The Greens signed a formal agreement with theAustralian Labor Party involving consultation in relation to policy and support in the House of Representatives in relation toconfidence and supply and three of the independents declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply,[34][35] allowing Gillard and Labor to remain in power with a 76–74 minority government.[36]
On 24 February 2011, in a joint press conference of the "Climate Change Committee" – comprising the Government, Greens and two independent MPs – Prime Minister Gillard announced a plan to legislate for the introduction of a fixed price to be imposed on "carbon pollution" from 1 July 2012[37] Thecarbon price would be placed for three to five years before a full emissions trading scheme is implemented, under a blueprint agreed by a multi-party parliamentary committee.[38] Key issues remained to be negotiated between the Government and the cross-benches, including compensation arrangements for households and businesses, the carbon price level, the emissions reduction target and whether or not to include fuel in the price.[39]
In April 2012, Bob stepped down as leader of the Australian Greens, and retired from the Senate in June 2012.[40]
Christine Milne led the Australian Greens through the remainder of the minority parliament,[41] after beingelected unopposed.
At the2013 federal election, theHouse of Representatives (lower house) primary vote was 8.7 percent (−3.1) with theSenate (upper house) primary vote at 8.7 percent (−4.5). Despite receiving a decline in votes, the Greens representation in the parliament increased.Adam Bandt retained hisMelbourne seat with a primary vote of 42.6 percent (+7.0) and atwo-candidate preferred vote of 55.3 percent (−0.6). The Greens won four Senate positions, increasing their Senate representation from nine to ten senators.
At the2014 Australian Senate special election in Western Australia, the Greens won in excess of a quota with the primary vote increasing from 9.5 to 15.6 percent, re-electingScott Ludlam.[42]
In December 2015, the Greens struck a deal with the Coalition government, passing a law requiring multinational private companies with a turnover over $200 million to disclose their tax arrangements. This law also made it mandatory for multinational companies with aglobal turnover of $1 billion or more to have to prepare "general purpose" financial statements, which disclose greater tax details than previously occurred in Australia.[43] The following year the Coalition government and the Greens agreed on a permanent 15% tax rate forbackpackers, in exchange for a $100 million funding boost to environmental stewardshipnot-for-profitLandcare.[44]
Christine Milne stepped down from the leadership of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015.[41]
Di Natale waselected unopposed as parliamentary leader of the Greens party room on 6 May 2015 following the resignation ofChristine Milne from the position.[45]
At the2016 federal election, theHouse of Representatives (lower house) primary vote increased to 10.23 percent (+1.58) but decreased in theSenate (upper house), with primary vote at 8.65 percent (−0.58).Adam Bandt was elected to a third term in hisMelbourne seat with a primary vote of 43.75 percent (+1.13) and atwo-candidate preferred vote of 68.48 percent (+13.21). Despite a campaign focus on winning additional seats in the lower house, The Greens failed to win any lower house contests.
The Greens also lost one Senate position inSouth Australia, decreasing their Senate representation from ten to nine senators, to a total of ten Green members in theParliament of Australia. The result was seen as disappointing, and caused internal divisions to flare up, with former Federal LeaderBob Brown calling upon SenatorLee Rhiannon to resign, citing the "need for renewal".[46]
In 2017, SenatorsScott Ludlam andLarissa Waters were forced to resign during2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis after it was found that Ludlam had dual Australian–New Zealand citizenship and Waters had dual citizenship withCanada.[47][48] Subsequently,Adam Bandt andRachel Siewert were named as temporary co-deputy leaders until the arrival of Ludlam and Waters' replacements in Canberra.[49]
At the2019 federal election, the Australian Greens received a primary vote of 10.4% in the House of Representatives, with a federal swing of +0.2%.[50] The party's highest vote was captured in the Australian Capital Territory (16.8%), followed by Victoria (11.9%), Western Australia (11.6%), Queensland (10.3%), Northern Territory (10.2%), Tasmania (10.1%), South Australia (9.6%) and New South Wales (8.7%). The party retained the federal electorate ofMelbourne withAdam Bandt sitting at a 71.8% two-party preferred vote.[51]
In the Senate, the Greens received favourable swings in South Australia (+5.03%), Queensland (+3.12%), the Australian Capital Territory (+1.61%), Western Australia (+1.48%), Tasmania (+1.41%) and New South Wales (+1.32%). Small swings against the Greens in the Senate were observed in only Victoria (−0.25%) and the Northern Territory (−0.54%).[52] All six Greens senators up for re-election retained their seats, including SenatorsMehreen Faruqi,Janet Rice,Larissa Waters,Sarah Hanson-Young,Jordon Steele-John andNick McKim.
Three key seats were targeted by the Greens in Victoria, includingKooyong,Higgins andMacnamara.[53] Prominent barristerJulian Burnside, who stood for Kooyong, came close to unseating treasurer and deputy Liberal leaderJosh Frydenberg, falling short by 5.7% in the two-party preferred vote.[54] Greens candidateJason Ball, for theDivision of Higgins, failed to enter the two-party preferred vote, despite optimism within the Greens and a diminishing Liberal vote.[55][56] In Macnamara (formerlyMelbourne Ports), a three-way contest emerged between the Liberals, Labor and Greens. Greens candidateSteph Hodgins-May had come within a few hundred votes in 2016 of taking the seat, however, redistributions in the electorate for the 2019 election were unfavourable for the Greens' vote, and the party's final vote sat at 24.2%.[53]
On 3 February 2020,Di Natale resigned as leader of the Greens and announced his intention to resign from the Senate.[57]
On 4 February, Adam Bandt waselected unopposed as parliamentary leader of the Australia Greens party room.[58]
The Greens' strategy for the2022 federal election involved targeting nine key seats, including the previously Labor-held seats ofMacnamara,Griffith,Richmond,Wills, andCanberra, and four previously Liberal-held seats ofKooyong,Brisbane,Ryan andHiggins.[59] Bandt claimed that polling suggested a hung parliament was a likely outcome and the Greens would work with Labor to "kick the Liberals out and make the next government go further and faster on climate action, and make billionaires and mining corporations pay their fair share."[59]Antony Green suggested that a redistribution in Victoria by theAustralian Electoral Commission would likely increase the Greens' odds of winning the seat of Macnamara.[60]
The party had its best ever result at the election, picking up three seats in innerBrisbane,Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the seat ofRyan,[61]Stephen Bates in the seat of Brisbane,[62] andMax Chandler-Mather in the seat ofGriffith,[63] to boost their representation in the House to four MPs, and won a Senate seat in every state to increase to 12 senators with new SenatorsBarbara Pocock,David Shoebridge andPenny Allman-Payne. This gave them the balance of power. Analysis of vote trends suggested the party succeeded in picking up former votes of both Labor and the Liberal Party.[64] The party were unsuccessful in picking up the seat ofRichmond with their high-profile candidateMandy Nolan.
On 6 February 2023, Victorian Greens senatorLidia Thorpe announced that she would resign from the Greens to become an independent senator, over disagreements concerning the proposedIndigenous Voice to Parliament.[65][66]
In mid-March 2024, the Greens announced they would introduce legislation seeking to break the dominance of the two supermarket giantsWoolworths Group andColes Group by forcing them to sell some of their operations. While theAlbanese government did not support the bill, it found support from the centre-rightNational Party.[67]
The Greens lost party leaderAdam Bandt in the seat ofMelbourne,Stephen Bates in the seat ofBrisbane, andMax Chandler-Mather in the seat ofGriffith in the2025 federal election, with Labor taking all three seats in a landslide victory. When Bandt conceded on 8 May 2025 Tasmanian Greens senatorNick McKim as party whip became acting leader until the plannedleadership meeting.[68]
Queensland SenatorLarissa Waters waselected unopposed as party leader on 15 May 2025, withMehreen Faruqi continuing as deputy leader. Sarah Hanson-Young was expected to run for the party leadership, however was elected as Manager of Greens Business.[69]
On 6 June 2025, Senator for Western AustraliaDorinda Cox defected to Labor.[70]
The Australian Greens are part of the global "green politics" movement. Former party LeaderAdam Bandt describes The Greens as asocial democratic party.[71] The charter of the Australian Greens identifies four main pillars as the party's policy: "social justice", "sustainability", "grassroots democracy" and "peace andnon-violence".[72]
The party favoursenvironmentalism, including expansion ofrecycling facilities; phasing outsingle-use plastics;conservation efforts; and addressingspecies extinction,habitat loss anddeforestation in Australia.[73]
The Greens support the achieving of100% renewable energy by 2030 through the establishment of aGreen New Deal, which entails investment in renewable energy technology and a revitalisation ofAustralian manufacturing.[74] Manufacturing would be required to produce solar panels, wind turbines and green steel produced from hydrogen. The party supports the creation of a publicly owned renewable energy provider to boost renewable energy and lower household electricity prices.[75][76] To support the transition to clean energy, the party calls for growth inlithium mining.[77] The Greens have also proposed plans to boost jobs and apprenticeships in the construction ofpublic housing units as further economic stimulus as well as to address risinghomelessness in Australia.[78]
The Greens oppose tax cuts that solely benefit the top bracket of income earners and lead toeconomic inequality.[79] The Greens believe that all essential services need to be adequately funded to suit community needs; and argue for the re-establishment of a publicly owned bank.[80] The party argues for a Corporate Super-Profits Tax on major corporations, the establishment of awealth tax onbillionaires, and an end to multi-national corporation'stax avoidance.[79]
The party advocates a significant improvement of welfare policies. They propose solving housing shortages and homelessness through the creation of affordable social housing. The party also wants to introducerent caps to limit growth of rental prices. Greens also propose increase in all income support payments to $88 a day, that would make them $1,232 per fortnight. To help students, the party wants to forgive all student debt. The Greens also advocate for free childcare as well asfree public transport. Finally, the Greens propose to increase the minimum wage.[81]
Green politicians have campaigned on freeuniversity andtechnical and further education.[82] The party opposes fee hikes for degrees and funding cuts for universities,[83] and have called for increased funding for public schools.[84] The party also supports the abolition of all student debt.[82]
The party supportsuniversal health care through extendingMedicare coverage intodental health care andmental health care.[85] Furthermore, the party supportsreproductive health rights andvoluntary euthanasia.[86] The Greens support drug law reform, including thelegalisation of cannabis; treatingdrug use as a health issue rather than a criminal issue; and the provision of freedrug checking stations at community events and relevant venues.[87] Further information on the Greens cannabis legalisation proposed law can be found atLegalising Cannabis Bill 2023.
The Greens have advocated on for various social issues, such as the legalisation ofmarriage equality, the right toseek asylum, andgender equality. The Greens also advocate for policies that they believe will strengthen Australian democracy and "clean up politics", including cappingpolitical donations and strengthening the powers of theNational Anti-Corruption Commission.[88]
In terms of agricultural policy, the party strongly favours policies to promoteanimal welfare and climate resilience with farmers. The Greens strongly support reducingsoil andwater degradation through community-driven decision-making processes, and supporting farmers experiencing effects of climate change.[89]
The Greens are in favour of phasing outlive animal exports, instead favouring investment in the domestic chilled meat industry.[90][91] The Greens have also campaigned on banninggreyhound racing,whaling andanimal-tested cosmetics.[73] The party believes in phasing out caged egg production and sow stalls, instead favouring ethical farming practices.[73] The party advocates for the reduction ofmethane emissions from livestock through research, animal health and nutrition, selection and genetics.[89]
On foreign policy, the party says that it wants "Independent, transparent and accountable foreign and defence policies based on mutual respect."[92]
In August 2025, the Greens urged the Albanese government to impose direct sanctions on high-ranking members ofNetanyahu's government and to stop supplying parts forF-35 fighter jets to the global supply chain that can be accessed byIsrael.[93] Greens senatorDavid Shoebridge said: "If the Albanese government stopped the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, then their F-35 fleet would be grounded."[94]
The party supportsproportional representation in the House of Representatives and local government.[95]
On Saturday 12 November 2005 at the national conference inHobart, the Australian Greens abandoned their long-standing tradition of having no official leader and approved a process whereby a parliamentary leader could be elected by the Greens ParliamentaryParty Room. On Monday 28 November 2005, Bob Brown – who had long been regarded asde facto leader by many inside the party, and most people outside the party – was elected unopposed as the Parliamentary Party Leader.[96] Each leader has been described to represent a faction within the party, with the political journalist Paddy Manning describing that Christine Milne came from the right wing of the party, while Bandt is the first Greens leader from the left wing of the party.[97]
The leadership is decided by consensus within theparty room (or a party room vote if consensus cannot be reached), and all previous Greens leaders have beenelected unopposed (as of 2025).[98][99]
In May 2020, 62% of rank-and-file Greens party members voted for democraticallyLeadership election to pick the leader, However it failed to meet the two-thirds majority of 66.67% which is required to force a change.[100]
Greens MPs are each assigned their own portfolios, or specific areas of responsibility. All portfolios are decided by the party and may differ in title from the government's portfolio priorities The Greens have formed a Gun Control portfolio, of which there is no equivalent in the government.[101][102]
Portfolios are divided into five major categories according to the Greens: "an equal society", "world-class essential services", "climate and the environment", "the green economy", and "a confident Australia".[101]
The Australian Greens isfederally organised with separately registered state parties signing up to a national constitution, yet retaining considerable policy-making and organisational autonomy from the centre.[103] The national decision-making body of the Australian Greens is the National Council, consisting of delegates from each member body (a state or territory Greens party), two members of the federal party room, a representative of the Australian Greens First Nations Network (AGFNN, or Blak Greens[104][105]), and the national office bearers including the National Convenor, Secretary and Treasurer. As at May 2020, all seven of the party's office bearer positions are held by women.[106] There is also a Public Officer, a Party Agent and a Registered Officer. The National Council arrives at decisions by consensus. All policies originating from this structure are subject to ratification by the members of the Australian Greens at National Conference.[107]
The Australian Greens are a federation consisting of eight parties from each state and territory. The variousAustralian states and territories have differentelectoral systems, all of which allow the Greens to gain representation. As of 2024, the Greens hold at least one seat in all eightstate and territory legislatures.
Five Greens have become ministers at the state/territory level: Nick McKim andCassy O'Connor in Tasmania, 2010–2014; and in theACT,Shane Rattenbury since2012 andEmma Davidson andRebecca Vassarotti since2020.
Most of the state-based Green parties which have joined the Australian Greens do not have a formal leader, and instead they have a shared leadership structure.[108] However, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and the ACT have adopted singular leadership structures into their party.[108]
The current Australian Green member parties are the following:
| Party | Leader | Laststate/territory election & current seat tally | Status | Federal representatives | ||||||||
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| Lower House | Upper House | MPs | Senators | |||||||||
| Year | Votes (%) | Current seats | Votes (%) | Current seats | ||||||||
| Greens New South Wales | None | 2023 | 9.7 | 3 / 93 | 9.1 | 4 / 42 | Crossbench | 0 / 46 | 2 / 12 | |||
| Victorian Greens | Ellen Sandell | 2022 | 11.5 | 3 / 88 | 10.3 | 4 / 40 | Crossbench | 0 / 38 | 1 / 12 | |||
| Queensland Greens | None | 2024 | 9.9 | 1 / 93 | —[b] | Crossbench | 1 / 30 | 2 / 12 | ||||
| Greens Western Australia | Brad Pettitt | 2025 | 11.1 | 0 / 59 | 10.9 | 4 / 37 | Crossbench | 0 / 16 | 1 / 12 | |||
| Greens South Australia | None | 2022 | 9.1 | 0 / 47 | 9.0 | 1 / 22 | Crossbench | 0 / 10 | 2 / 12 | |||
| Tasmanian Greens | Rosalie Woodruff | 2024 | 13.9 | 5 / 35 | —[c] | 1 / 15 | Crossbench | 0 / 5 | 2 / 12 | |||
| ACT Greens | Shane Rattenbury | 2024 | 12.2 | 4 / 25 | —[d] | Crossbench | 0 / 3 | 0 / 2 | ||||
| Northern Territory Greens | None | 2024 | 8.1 | 1 / 25 | —[e] | Crossbench | 0 / 2 | 0 / 2 | ||||
A variety of working groups have been established by the National Council, which are directly accessible to all Greens members. Working groups perform an advisory function by developing policy, reviewing or developing the party structure, or by performing other tasks assigned by the National Council.[109]
TheAustralian Young Greens are a federation of Young Greens groups from each Australian state and territory. Together they form the youth wing of the Australian Greens
A national Sexuality and Gender Identity Working Group exists at a federal level,[110] and there are LGBTIQ working groups in some state and territory parties, including: Queer Greens Victoria,Queensland Rainbow Greens,SA Greens Queer Members Action Group,NSW Greens Sex, Sexuality and Gender Identity Working Group.
The Greens generally draw support from younger voters with higher than average educational attainment. The Greens absorbed much of theAustralian Democrats' support base following its downfall as the third party in Australia and many of the social and environmental policies and issues that the Democrats advocated for have been taken up by the Greens. Much like the Democrats, the Greens have a higher proportion of supporters who are university educated, under 40, identify as professionals in their field, are small business owners, and earn above the national average wage.[111] Notably, there has also been a steady increase in working-class support for the Greens since the creation of the party.[112]
In 2019,Ian McAllister in an analysis ofclass voting patterns found that Greens voters are distinguished as being high incultural capital, such as a university education, but tend to be inasset poverty due to not owning their own home.[113] Political scientist Todd Farrell in an analysis in 2020 found that, unlike other minor parties in the past (such as the Australian Democrats), Greens supporters hold high levels ofparty identification and consistent durable vote, indicating apolitical realignment in Australian politics away from the major Labor and Liberal parties.[114]
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | None | 196,702 | 1.83 | 0 / 147 |  | 5th | No seats |
| 1996 | 188,994 | 1.74 | 0 / 148 | |  6th | No seats | |
| 1998 | 238,035 | 2.14 | 0 / 148 | | 6th | No seats | |
| 2001 | 569,074 | 4.96 | 0 / 150 | | 5th | No seats | |
| 2004 | 841,734 | 7.19 | 0 / 150 | | 3rd | No seats | |
| 2007 | Bob Brown | 967,789 | 7.79 | 0 / 150 | | 3rd | No seats |
| 2010 | 1,458,998 | 11.76 | 1 / 150 | 1 | 3rd | Confidence and supply | |
| 2013 | Christine Milne | 1,116,918 | 8.65 | 1 / 150 | | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2016 | Richard Di Natale | 1,385,651 | 10.23 | 1 / 150 | | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2019 | 1,482,923 | 10.40 | 1 / 151 | | 3rd | Crossbench | |
| 2022 | Adam Bandt | 1,795,985 | 12.25 | 4 / 151 | 3 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2025 | 1,889,977 | 12.20 | 1 / 150 | 3 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up | Total | |||||||
| 1990 | None | 201,618 | 2.0 | 0 / 40 | 0 / 76 | | 5th | No seats |
| 1993 | 263,106 | 2.5 | 0 / 40 | 0 / 76 | | 5th | No seats | |
| 1996 | 180,404 | 1.7 | 0 / 40 | 0 / 76 | | 5th | No seats | |
| 1998 | 244,165 | 2.2 | 0 / 40 | 1 / 76 | [f] | 5th | Crossbench | |
| 2001 | 574,543 | 4.9 | 2 / 40 | 2 / 76 | 1 | 4th | Crossbench | |
| 2004 | 916,431 | 7.7 | 2 / 40 | 4 / 76 | 2 | 4th | Crossbench | |
| 2007 | Bob Brown | 1,144,751 | 9.0 | 3 / 40 | 5 / 76 | 1 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2010 | 1,667,315 | 13.1 | 6 / 40 | 9 / 76 | 4 | 3rd | Crossbench | |
| 2013 | Christine Milne | 1,159,588 | 8.6 | 4 / 40 | 10 / 76 | 1 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2016 | Richard Di Natale | 1,197,657 | 8.7 | 9 / 76 | 9 / 76 | 1 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2019 | 1,488,427 | 10.2 | 6 / 40 | 9 / 76 | | 3rd | Crossbench | |
| 2022 | Adam Bandt | 1,903,403 | 12.6 | 6 / 40 | 12 / 76 | 3 | 3rd | Crossbench |
| 2025 | 1,859,974 | 11.72 | 6 / 40 | 11 / 76 | [g] | 3rd | Crossbench | |
| Year |  AU |  ACT |  NSW |  NT |  Qld |  SA |  Tas |  Vic |  WA | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0.5 | |||
| 1990 | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| 1991 | 0.5 | |||||||||||
| 1992 | 13.2 | |||||||||||
| 1993 | 1.8 | 4.3 | ||||||||||
| 1994 | 0.8 | |||||||||||
| 1995 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 2.9 | |||||||||
| 1996 | 1.7 | 11.1 | 4.7 | |||||||||
| 1997 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
| 1998 | 2.1 | 9.1 | 2.4 | 10.2 | ||||||||
| 1999 | 3.9 | 1.2 | ||||||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | 5.0 | 9.1 | N/A | 2.5 | 7.3 | |||||||
| 2002 | 2.4 | 18.1 | 9.7 | |||||||||
| 2003 | 8.3 | |||||||||||
| 2004 | 7.2 | 9.3 | 6.8 | |||||||||
| 2005 | 4.2 | 7.8 | ||||||||||
| 2006 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 16.6 | 10.0 | ||||||||
| 2007 | 7.8 | 8.9 | ||||||||||
| 2008 | 15.6 | 4.3 | 11.9 | |||||||||
| 2009 | 8.4 | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 11.8 | 8.1 | 21.6 | 11.2 | ||||||||
| 2011 | 10.3 | |||||||||||
| 2012 | 10.7 | 3.3 | 7.5 | |||||||||
| 2013 | 8.5 | 8.4 | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 8.7 | 13.8 | 11.5 | |||||||||
| 2015 | 10.3 | 8.4 | ||||||||||
| 2016 | 10.2 | 10.3 | 2.9 | |||||||||
| 2017 | 10.0 | 8.9 | ||||||||||
| 2018 | 6.7 | 10.3 | 10.7 | |||||||||
| 2019 | 10.4 | 9.6 | ||||||||||
| 2020 | 13.5 | 4.5 | 9.5 | |||||||||
| 2021 | 12.4 | 6.9 | ||||||||||
| 2022 | 12.3 | 9.1 | 11.5 | |||||||||
| 2023 | 9.7 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 12.3 | 8.1 | 9.9 | 13.9 | ||||||||
| 2025 | 12.2 | 14.4 | 11.1 | |||||||||
| Year | AU | ACT | NSW | NT | Qld | SA | Tas | Vic | WA | |||
| Bold indicates best result to date. Present in legislature (in crossbench or opposition) Junior coalition partner Senior coalition partner | ||||||||||||
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Senators Vallentine, Chamarette and Margetts were all elected asGreens (WA) senators and served their terms before the Greens WA affiliated to the Australian Greens, meaning that they were not considered to be Australian Greens senators at the time.
For current and former state parliamentarians, see theList of Australian Greens parliamentarians.
For the 2015–2016 financial year, the top ten disclosed donors to the Greens were:Graeme Wood ($500,000), Duncan Turpie ($500,000),Electrical Trades Union of Australia ($320,000),Louise Crossley ($138,000), Anna Hackett ($100,000), Pater Investments ($100,000), Ruth Greble ($35,000), Minax Uriel Ptd Ltd ($39,800) andChilla Bulbeck ($30,000).[115]
Since 2017, the Australian Greens have implemented real-time disclosure of donations to them of over $1,000, in an effort to "clean up politics".[88]
In 2021 the role of the Australian Greens (AG)
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