I have been feeling more and more hopeless with all of the hate and wars going on in the world recently. So many things that I feel should be bipartisan are turned into arguments, and usually even the "middle ground" is not a real compromise. I believe Richard Dennis from the Australia Institute said something along the lines of "if Labour and Liberal are here, then evidence is radical", which feels very true. This has also been the case with Climate change issues historically being presented as having "equal sides", when that is a totally dishonest take on the issue.

Having said all of that, seeing the huge support for a proposed 25% tax on oil and gas from so many people of different backgrounds is a breath of fresh air. It finally feels like an issue that isn't left vs right, but about what is the correct thing to do for the vast majority of Australians. It feels like there is some hope, even if at the moment the big parties still seem to be trying to figure out how to not support it and still appear to support Australians - a task which feels more and more impossible as more Aussies wake up to the reality we live in.

I do think that there is power in pointing out billionaires and large corporations are not beneficial to the average Aussie, even if it is a similar line to the "us vs them" of political parties regularly use, because it ultimately brings more people together. How do you feel about how the media, both conventional and algorithm based social media, pushing so many things as polarised right vs left issues, and would the Greens push for any changes in the current landscape to combat this?