The Federal government’s reaction to Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a likely reason for the significant increase in the Green’s vote.

Readers may recall an earlier article by me published in P&I back in January and titled The 2025 Federal Election – what are we to do?

The theme of the article was how the Gazan war and our government’s response to it must necessarily impact on many peoples’ voting intentions in the next Federal election. In particular, attention was drawn to the many disenchanted traditional Labour voters and what they might do.

The Dunstan by-election was held on 23 March. The final........

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