CAMERON MILNER: Of all the Greens’ crimes against decency, their anti-Semitism is the gravest

Canberra’s worst kept secret is out: at best Anthony Albanese will lead a minority government after May 3.

He will remain PM, but the Greens and a clutch of teals will hold the power.

For all the polls tightening and the Liberals coming off the boil, Labor’s primary is still worse than at the 2022 election, which itself was the lowest primary Labor has ever managed to form a majority government with.

Greens leader Adam Bandt belled the cat at the National Press Club on Wednesday when he publicly issued his blackmail demands.

The Greens are no longer just a bit of political cocaine snorted by climate sophisticates in the well-to-do leafy suburbs. They’re not just the party of dope-smoking inner city layabouts doing their post-grad part-time in gender fluidity.

The Greens aren’t some social drug, but political back alley meth, demanding to be injected into the arm of the next Labor government.

The Greens are anti-capital, anti-worker and anti-Israel. They are a party of economic extremists and hard Left political absolutists.

Of these crimes, the worst is their status as anti-Semitism apologists who continually try to draw a moral equivalence between Israel’s self defence against Hamas’ aggressions and the Holocaust.

Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would’ve been proud of the Adam Bandt’s spin that the Greens’ candidate who said “Hitler had fun” was actually one of the party’s champions of combatting anti-Semitism.

The Greens are now the One Nation of the political left, yet Labor will willingly jump into bed with them after 2am on Sunday May 4 just to hold onto government.

And the teals are no better. All of them hold formerly Liberal-represented electorates yet are nothing more than Labor stooges when it comes to who they will back in the event of a hung parliament.

Many of those same teals profess their fealty for local Jewish communities but none have paid back the tainted money from Climate 200 who continue to employ a staffer who has called for the boycott of Jewish businesses. If Allegra Spender and Zoe Daniels are genuine they’d pay back every red cent received from Climate 200, just as Labor did with tobacco industry donations in the past.

Labor is planning some really oddball bedfellows after May 3.

Albanese will tell you he’s still on track to win a majority, but that’s as believable as his promise to cut people’s power bills by $275. He has form with saying one thing before an election and another when in government.

The polls are pretty accurate and the State by State data shows that Labor will lose seats in NSW and Victoria where Albanese is badly on the nose.

National secretary Paul Erickson is reportedly seeking Libertarian party preferences for Labor in Dunkley and Hawke, both held with big margins, and such a desperate negotiation shows how panicked Labor actually is in Victoria.

Notably those preferences aren’t being asked for in much more marginal contests such as McEwen, Aston, Chisholm or Bruce which look already lost.

Four seats are expected to be lost in NSW. Add to that Lyons in Tasmania and not holding the gains made in WA at the last election and Albo will need Greens and their extremism to govern.

The grim reality is that a Labor/Greens/Teals menagerie is looking increasingly likely.

But they won’t suffer it long.

Australians will demand a strong, stable government, particularly crucial to stand up to Trump and the craziness of those around him goading the US into a global trade war, even against its AUKUS and Five Eyes allies.

Why then would Australian voters consciously vote for a deeply unstable minority government led by weak Albanese?

Albanese can’t name the seats he will gain to offset the known losses his cost-of-living crisis will see Labor suffer. His visit to the seat of Leichhardt, Labor’s best prospect of a gain, is only one seat.

Labor is trying everything to keep the channel tuned to Trump in the hope that Albanese’s latest confidence trick on voters goes by unnoticed until after the polls have closed.

Dutton would do well though to campaign against not only his direct opponent in Labor, but also against the only plausible alternative government which will see Adam Bandt in control of the next parliament alongside a grab bag of Climate 200 paid-for MPs.

Voters haven’t yet started pre-poll so there’s still time to avert the absolute disaster that would be a Labor government under the whip hand of the Greens.

Julia Gillard’s deal in 2010 to form minority government with Bob Brown led to the carbon tax and open borders with a welcome mat for people smugglers.

Our nation can’t afford to go back to those dark days again. Nor can Labor itself.

The Greens have lurched even harder to the left and are even wackier on the economy and Israel than at any time before.

All Albanese really wants is to be able to notch up a re-election as PM. But voters this time will be forewarned and forearmed. In the conscious rejection of the chaos of a weak Albanese and extremist Bandt minority government lays a path for a Dutton alternative.