Once, just once, I'd love to see the Greens get into power.
Let's see Christine Milne balance the budget and reduce the growing debt being imposed on unassuming and lost younger generations. It's amazing how the Greens target themselves at younger generations, and these naives don't get that Greens grandiose and moral superiority will be funded by their toil.
BTW, it's so cliche for smug North Shore types, who have never raised an unpaid volunteer's finger for the public good, keep bashing conservative politicians. Nevertheless, I suppose it helps affirm their identity and membership of the intellectual elite.
Clearly you don't understand the appeal of the Greens to the younger generation. Re-read their policies. Their spending increases are more than offset by their tax increases, particularly on the rich and corporations. They would likely balance the budget pretty quick if they got what they wanted on the tax front.
The young are mostly not rich and would be largely unaffected by the tax increases in the short term but would benefit from all the increased social services (free education, better health care without co-payments, etc etc etc). The debt would be paid off by the time they got older.
Of course, this would all come courtesy of tax increases on the older and wealthier, which explains the acute unpopularity of the Greens in that demographic.
It seems we are, after all is said and done, still only asking what our country can do for us...
(BTW I'm no supporter either - I reckon the saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" could have been made for the Greens. Just trying to reconcile the obvious appeal variations among different demographics...)