Can the Greens beat Labor? – Back to Back Barries podcast
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Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly (filling in for Tony Barry) discuss the Greens leadership change this week. Senator David Shoebridge defeated two women to take out the top job in a rare contested ballot. So what direction will he take the progressive party and can they ‘replace’ Labor as he claims? Also in this episode: what did the prime minister say at George Megalogenis’ Melbourne book launch that surprised both of these former political advisers? And as we draw ever nearer to the Victorian election, what do the polls reveal about how it could all play out? David Shoebridge says ‘we’re here to replace Labor’ in first remarks after being elected new Greens leader A ‘huge ego’ but effective: who is David Shoebridge, the polarising new Greens leader taking on One Nation?
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