The Victorian Greens have announced that they will contest all 37 House of Representatives electorates in this year’s election.
The Greens Senate candidate will be Scott Kinnear, the former and founding Chairperson of the Organic Federation of Australia. Kinnear is an advocate for a GE-free (genetic engineering) Australia.
At the 1998 election, the Greens polled 70,872, or 2.49%, of the primary vote in Victoria. This represented 0.17% of a Senate quota. The ALP and the Coalition each won 3 Senate seats, squeezing both the Greens and the Democrats.