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Article: Green gains, labor pains: the greens will need to develop new campaign methods as they make further inroads into labor's traditional support base.(against the current)
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- Arena Magazine
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- December 1, 2003
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After 113 years of political life, the Australian Labor Party is very adept at running election campaigns. However, although Labor has now contested hundreds of elections, its MPs have never been seriously tested at the ballot box from the left side of politics. While Australia has a plethora of left parties, it is only with the recent rise of the Greens that Labor has encountered a significant electoral threat from a party that does not sit to its right.
Currently, in 2003, seventeen Greens MPs hold seats in Federal, State and Territory parliaments. Most of the Greens' electoral gains have been in the Senate and State upper houses; but in a few once-safe Labor ...