There is absolutely no place for hate and division in Victoria.
Pauline Hanson and her billionaire-backers want to use Victorians for their own political ambitions and to protect their own profits – but the Greens are here to stand in her way.
Our message to all Victorians, and especially to First Nations, migrant communities, trans communities, refugees and asylum seekers and all people of colour, is this: the Greens are with you.
We won’t let the rhetoric from Pauline Hanson’s address yesterday become the norm in Victoria where our diversity is our strength.
We also cannot be distracted from why this is happening in the first place.
One Nation hasn’t come out of nowhere. They are a symptom of the major parties’ failure to listen to people and take action on the housing and cost of living crises, while letting billionaires and big corporations make record profits at the expense of everyday working Victorians.
Labor and the Liberals have ignored people for too long. The system isn’t working for people and people are fed up.
But let’s be clear, One Nation is controlled by, and works for, the same big corporations and vested interests as the major parties. Swapping one corporate-controlled party for another won’t fix anything.
Yesterday proved that One Nation won’t fix anything, they only offer someone to blame.
One Nation wants to distract us from who caused these problems in the first place: the big corporations and vested interests, and the political parties who help them.
While One Nation wants to divide people, The Greens are bringing people together.
Every week hundreds of Greens volunteers are out in the community, having conversations, face to face with people, and building collective power ahead of the November election.
The Greens have had a groundswell of new volunteers sign up in just a matter of weeks.
Fighting back starts with coming together.
